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In reply to the discussion: The so-called "bullet ballots" and too many voting for president only [View all]onenote
(44,636 posts)I don't know what numbers you are looking at, but here are the numbers from the NCSBE site:
Presidential race: https://er.ncsbe.gov/contest_details.html?election_dt=11/05/2024&county_id=0&contest_id=1393
If you add together all of the votes in the presidential race, you get 5,699,862.
Governor: https://er.ncsbe.gov/contest_details.html?election_dt=11/05/2024&county_id=0&contest_id=1180
If you add together all of the votes in the race for governor, you get: 5,592,243
Subtract the governor's race total from the presidential race total: 107,619.
Divide 107,619 by 5,699,862 and you get a 1.89% difference. Which is somewhat higher than the typical 1 to 1.5% difference, but also explained by the fact that Mark Robinson's campaign for governor totally collapsed, which undoubtedly led to more than the usual number of voters not casting a ballot in that race.
Can you show me how you came up with 303,039?