Derek Willis is an interactive developer for the New York Times who works on political and election-related applications. Today, Willis calls our attention to an unusual result in Mississippi’s June 3rd U.S. Senate primary: State Sen. Chris McDaniel received no votes in Harrison County’s Biloxi #10 voting precinct.
However, McDaniel received 224 votes in that same precinct in his run-off against incumbent Sen. Thad Cochran just three weeks later. Did McDaniel really win over more than two hundred Biloxi #10 voters between the primary and the run-off? Or, more likely, did someone make a mistake when tabulating the primary results?
Should add that 200+ votes would not change the outcome, but a tabulation error does seem possible in this case.
— Derek Willis (@derekwillis) July 14, 2014
More important: if Miss. election results were generated in more modern way & easier to work with, spotting such things would be far easier.
— Derek Willis (@derekwillis) July 14, 2014
Hard to argue with that.
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