11-06-2012, 12:04 AM
cbelt3 wrote:
Gute... uhm... assuming that by now there are 8 million voters in Ohio, your comment assumes that one candidate will have a more than 12% lead over the other for the 500K votes to 'not count'. (Assuming the provisional votes are all for one canidate, which is of course not the case).
So I disagree.
The 500,000 votes aren't going to matter because the differential is going to be about four percent, and four percent of 500,000 is not going to make up the difference of four percent of eight million. Check the figures from 2008--the absentee and provisional ballot spread pretty much mirrored the spread at the polls. The 500,000 won't matter unless that nice Secretary of State of yours is fiddling the numbers.