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2016 Postmortem
Showing Original Post only (View all)If this is true, something is really stinking to high heaven H gets 23,700 votes back in PA. [View all]
With a recount effort now underway in the three razor-tight swing states of Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania, it turns out Hillary Clinton has already moved closer to winning those states than had originally been announced. In the past two weeks Michigan and Wisconsin have both voluntarily revised the size of Donald Trumps win downward by thousands of votes each. And now Pennsylvania has shrunk the size of Trumps win by tens of thousands of votes.
Its important to understand that these revisions have been made by the states before the recounts even got underway. These shifts in the vote totals have been based on precincts revising their own numbers, either because they caught errors of their own accord, or in some instances because internet gawkers spotted numerical impossibilities that forced those precincts to check themselves. But the sudden shift in Pennsylvania voting totals is dramatic, in that it wipes out around one-third of Trumps lead in the state ahead of the recount.
Heres what happened: according to this USA Today article and several other sources, the vote totals in Pennsylvania had Donald Trump winning by 70,638 votes a number which was often quoted as a reason for why Hillary Clinton would supposedly have no chance of flipping the state in a recount. But earlier today, the respected Decision Desk HQ posted the newly revised totals from Pennsylvania, which have Donald Trump ahead by just 46,938 votes. That means Trumps lead in the state has now shrunk by 23,700 votes, based on what it says are newly revised numbers out of Philadelphia.
http://www.palmerreport.com/news/hillary-clinton-catches-20000-votes-pennsylvania-recount-begins/305/
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If this is true, something is really stinking to high heaven H gets 23,700 votes back in PA. [View all]
boston bean
Dec 2016
OP
From what I've seen these were "provisional" ballots that were finally counted and added
jonno99
Dec 2016
#1
this, its not unusual to have numbers change. and Provisional ballots and absentees usually lean D
Amishman
Dec 2016
#4
Clearly, we are going to need to push through legislation, if we ever get Congress back,
Ken Burch
Dec 2016
#11
He said the same thing about California during the primaries. I don't know how other states do it
still_one
Dec 2016
#12
of course adequate checks are done to insure double voting isn't occurring, the person
still_one
Dec 2016
#19
because the number of votes outstanding was not enough to come close to swinging the election
Amishman
Dec 2016
#5
This Is Basically The Electoral Equivalent of The Olympic Committee Announcing
TrollBuster9090
Dec 2016
#13
Remember Beverly and black box voting? Keith Olbermann, only voice in the media - 2004.
SleeplessinSoCal
Dec 2016
#14
I have to say, if the situations were exactly reversed, and it was Trump calling for a recount --
byronius
Dec 2016
#15
Turns out exit polls were pretty much acurate, and trump won in states they said he would.
jmg257
Dec 2016
#16
I know the recounts haven't been finsihed; it is the exit polls are pretty much on. nt
jmg257
Dec 2016
#29
Indeed - I am making that assumption, due to lack of evidence of another alternative.
jmg257
Dec 2016
#36
Isn't statistically odd for all these error corrections to be in Clinton's favor?
tandem5
Dec 2016
#23
How the fuck can an election be called when all this vote counting shit happens?
BSdetect
Dec 2016
#30