Why are the bad data from Franklin County, Ohio still posted?

[k8conant]

I posted this on another thread and now can make it my own thread.

Franklin County also added the absentee ballots twice!
I went to:
http://www.franklincountyohio.gov/boe/content/electionA...

2004 - November 2nd - General Election Unofficial Results

Unofficial Abstract Index (PDF)
Unofficial Abstract of Votes (PDF) (NOTE: This is a large file and may take some time to download.)

I downloaded both. The Abstract of Votes still shows the bad Gahanna precinct data on Page 23. On page 34 there are listed ABSENTEE 1 and ABSENTEE 2.
By the totals these appear to be 2 counts of the same ballots., BUT both counts are added to the grand totals which also appear in the Unofficial Abstract Index..

After subtracting the 1st absentee count and correcting the Gahanna totals,
I calculate these county-wide totals for Franklin County:

Bush 220,145 Kerry 265,548

The Secretary of State site at
http://www.sos.state.oh.us/sos//results/11-02-04.htm
lists for Franklin County:

Bush 234,196 Kerry 275,573

(This matches the original bad data at Franklin County)

If all this has even been in the MSM as a "computer glitch", why haven't the totals been corrected? Have the absentee ballots been added twice elsewhere?

:kick:

[Demit]

1. maybe b/c it's still the "unofficial" count? They don't bother to correct

till the count is made official and certified? Just a guess. I had wondered about that myself.

[sabra]

2. I guess that's why it's unofficial?

They are taking a darn long time to post the official numbers. In regards to the absentee being on two lines, I recall reading somewhere about a glitch in the reporting software with summing up the absentee votes, so they had to split it in two to make thing work (seems ridiculous to me though).

[k8conant]

3. The absentee vote lines match with 1 or 2 vote differences

So that wouldn't explain why they're both included in the totals.

[jmknapp]

4. They purposefully split it into two lines

because their software has problems with precinct totals over 32,768.