I wonder what the effect was of those who buggered up their vote?
Generally when folks screw up, they have voted and then blown it in another way. They vote, then write a note. This counts as two breaches. Sometimes they just blow the vote.
Of ten problem votes last night, there was one duplicate. Only the last vote was counted. I allow this.
Then there were seven votes amount the nine breaches.
Two were Cruz and five were for Trump. None of those counted. 5-2=3, so this would have swung vote a little more than 0.5% more for Trump. If you look at the spread, you quickly realize that would not be significant at all.
Trump lost out last night, but I honestly don’t count each night.
I’m so concentrated on looking for breaches, that I don’t even see the names, even though I look right at them.
I’m looking for infractions and when I see them I take action and the candidate doesn’t register.
In my workup, I have the candidate’s name in two columns. In the right column I write the infraction, breach (of protocol), duplicate, or vote out of the time window.
These as well as the candidate’s names are automatically tallied above.
You see the results in the top graphic on the results page.