Primary Results Available
The Election Board has released the results of May's Primary nominations. They are broken down between the two types of machines used at polling stations. It required a little bit of math to figure out what the true totals were.
In order to save my readers the time of doing so I have done that math for the major races. I will not be doing this for precinct by precinct results. That would be insane.
I will take this weekend to look over the results and report if I find anything of interest over the course of next week.
posted by Indiana Pundit at 2:20 AM
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Let me get this straight: it took them over a month to get the results on-line, and then you have to go through each report and add them up yourself? Don't they have Excel spreadsheets at the Election Board and they could add them up for us? Is this as ridiculous as it sounds or am I missing something?
Part of the problem has to do with the certification of the machines. They couldn't certif the election until the machines were certified.
The reason it wasn't in excel is probably because of the manpower it would have required to make a spreadsheet possible. There were 76 pages from the summary pages alone.
Look for the election board to address the issue this summer and be ready for the fall as normal.
IP, that is no excuse. In today's world that data could be processed into a usable format in no time. The primaries in California had web applications that streamed the data to users as it was tabulated.
I think at some point everyone needs to question whether or not the people running the election board know what they're doing as I think you would be hard pressed to find this kind of delay (and format) in posting results anywhere else...
Jeff, the main part of the delay was due to the certification of the machines. They couldn't release the results until they were certified and they couldn't certify the results until the machines were certified. The machine certification was in not in their hands.
I think you would be hard-pressed to find elsewhere the quality of the Allen county election board. It is the best one in the state.
I'm glad to see the machines were certified as the lawsuits would've gotten ugly otherwise. Still, the board's fingerpointing at Microvote isn't entirely fair since it is ultimately their responsibility to ensure the elections are accurate...
Yes it is ultimately their responsibility. But, things happen.
From what I understand the Election board didn't get everything they were promised by Microvote.
The PDF files are not a standard excel sheet converted to pdf. I attempted to extract the PDF file to a text file and all I got were the precinct names. All numbers were empty. The 2004 data was available in excel format. They did not simply scan a page, nor did they save a standard text file to pdf. I am not sure what the original file format was, but it does make it more difficult to look at precinct totals.
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