Strange data in 2016 Precinct results

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Strange data in 2016 Precinct results #56

Open hodgesmr opened 7 years ago

hodgesmr commented 7 years ago

The data is formatted a little weird in the 2016 precinct results.

Some examples:

Butler,FAIR2WD1,AAB,President (at-large),,R,Donald J. Trump,93 (is at-large desirable?)
Butler,FAIR2WD1,AAB,President (district),8,R,Jeb Bush,1 (are district and 8 desirable?)
- Butler,FAIR2WD1,AAB,U.S. House,"08 (idle ", leading zero)
Unexpired Term Ending 01/03/2017",R,Matthew Ashworth,1 (Probably erroneous data?)

dwillis commented 7 years ago

In the GOP primary only, presidential votes are cast for both at-large and within a congressional district, so those results are desirable. But it looks like the House one has that idle quotemark. The unexpired term thing does warrant investigation - Ashworth ran in the primary for Boehner's seat, but not the unexpired term contest on the same day.

christopherjenness commented 6 years ago

@dwillis have you looked into this? Otherwise, I can take a stab.

dwillis commented 6 years ago

@christopherjenness Thanks! The presidential stuff is as it should be - Ohio reports GOP presidential primary results by congressional district and a statewide "At-large" district. The stray quotemarks are worth looking at, though, as is the line(s) with Ashworth mentioning unexpired term.

warwickmm commented 3 years ago

I believe the following strange entries are simply due to an unnecessary line break. The matching ending quote appears on the next line.

Butler,U.S. House,"08
Unexpired Term Ending 01/03/2017",R,Matthew Ashworth,698

Removing the line break yields

Butler,U.S. House,"08 Unexpired Term Ending 01/03/2017",R,Matthew Ashworth,698

There are several examples of this:

However, like @dwillis mentioned above, it's not clear if the "office" 08 Unexpired Term Ending 01/03/2017 is correct. If you look at the right side of the screenshot immediately after the highlighted section, there are additional entries with the same candidates for U.S. House District 8 for Butler County.

warwickmm commented 3 years ago

Here are the corresponding results from the Butler County Board of Elections site.

The "unexpired term" vote totals agree with the ones from the "08 Unexpired Term Ending 01/03/2017" entries:

The "full term" vote totals agree with the ones from the "U.S. House,8" entries: