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2016 Postmortem

srobertss

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5. does the voter turnout data include provisional votes?

Reply to mythology (Reply #4)

Wed Dec 14, 2016, 05:36 PM

Dec 2016

If it does, then that could account for the numbers of minority voters looking like they did in past elections. But most of those provisional ballots won't be counted. Even the exit polls wouldn't reflect whether someone had cast a provisional vote.

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