Whoops
Pay no attention to those numbers... yet.
The Guilford County Board of Elections folks made a mistake when plugging in the numbers tonight. So you may have seen a report online at the Board of Elections site that said the bulk of the precincts were in with only 3,000 or 6,000 votes reported.
That is not the case. More in a minute, but we'll report back here once we have confirmation the whole vote is in.
Elections Director George Gilbert explained to the crowd down at the Old County Courthouse what went wrong.
Click here to listen to his explanation.
Update: The short version is this:
Voting laws require that those who cast early and absentee ballots be counted as part of their home precincts. The computers that tally Guilford County's can sort them back in, easy cheesy.
The problem comes when the computer is told to sort them early, which is what happened tonight. Because they sorted early, the bulk of the city's precincts showed up as having been counted when in fact they have not been. That leaves you, the home viewer, as well as us scruffy media types guessing as to when the vote totals are completed.
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I don't think Sandy Carmeny is saying "Whoops".
Posted on November 6, 2007 9:09 PM
Probably not.
Posted on November 6, 2007 9:32 PM