You should have contacted the Secretary of State first so he could have informed you about how the votes are cross checked prior to being certified.
Now you'll just look foolish.
As I understand it, the totals announced so far (i.e., the 135,000 number) are unofficial. So anything that impacts that is potentially important. Of course only the certified results count, but that total will be known only in the future. By the way, I had also sent an email to the Board of Elections contact, but they had evidently already been contacted by the Dispatch this morning on the issue.