Vote Count June 2006

Item	6/7/2006		6/8/2006		6/9/2006		6/12/2006		6/13/2006		6/14/2006
Total Uncounted	68,500		66,500		35,455		15500		12500		4500
U.S. REPRESENTATIVE 52ND DISTRICT - DEMOCRATIC
Total Counted	25542		36662		38915		42221		42455		43212
Total Blank	8280	32.42%	9061	24.71%	9775	25.12%	10860	25.72%	10910	25.70%	11133	25.76%
Total Over			0		0		0		0		0
Total Under			0		0		0		0		0
KAREN MARIE OTTER	3975	15.73%	4342	15.90%	4552	15.84%	4886	15.84%	4918	15.85%	4998	15.84%
DEREK CASADY	4953	19.61%	5332	19.52%	5592	19.45%	6004	19.46%	6030	19.43%	6129	19.43%
JOHN RINALDI	9820	38.87%	10599	38.81%	11156	38.81%	11944	38.71%	12011	38.70%	12219	38.73%
CONNIE FRANKOWIAK	3740	14.80%	4056	14.85%	4288	14.92%	4622	14.98%	4662	15.02%	4722	14.97%
PETER MOORE KOCHLACS	2775	10.98%	2984	10.93%	3157	10.98%	3399	11.02%	3415	11.00%	3479	11.03%
Total Votes	25263		27313		28745		30855		31036		31547
Total Votes+Blank			36374		38520		41715		41946		42680
Other Votes:			288		395		506		509		532
U.S. REPRESENTATIVE 50TH DISTRICT - (RUN-OFF)
Total Counted			134302		144963		156335		157610		159890
Total Blank			3418	2.55%	3665	2.53%	3944	2.52%	3981	2.53%	4384	2.74%
Total Over			0		0		0		0		0
Total Under			0		0		0		0		0
PAUL KING	1875	1.53%	1995	1.53%	2201	1.57%	2418	1.60%	2437	1.60%	2465	1.59%
BRIAN BILBRAY	60319	49.33%	64554	49.50%	69617	49.51%	75247	49.66%	75783	49.61%	76557	49.51%
FRANCINE BUSBY	55587	45.46%	59021	45.26%	63489	45.15%	68131	44.96%	68746	45.00%	69710	45.08%
W. GRIFFITH - IND	4492	3.67%	4846	3.72%	5318	3.78%	5738	3.79%	5804	3.80%	5889	3.81%
Total Votes	122273		130416		140625		151534		152770		154621
Total Votes+Blank			133834		144290		155478		156751		159005
Other Votes:			468		673		857		859		885

Order of candidates per official registrar of voters XML file.
6/7/2006 figures taken from June 8, 2006 Union Tribune and updated from Registrar of Voters.
"Total Blank" figures are available only in the raw XML file used to generate the http://www.sdvote.org/election/primary.xml page.
(To view it, right-click in middle of the election results, save to file, then open that file with Notepad.exe.)
"Total Votes" is the votes for all the candidates summed.
"Total Votes + Blank" is the "Total Votes" added to the (you guessed it) the "Total Blank" votes.
"Other Votes" is the "Total Counted" minus the "Total Votes + Blank". Bob McDaniel says these are the random write-ins, the so-called "Donald Ducks".

The Number and Percent of Precincts Reporting is a very confusing figure. I discussed this with the Registrar of Voters. First, there are a number of physical precincts, and there are a number of absentee ballot types. For the city of San Diego, for example, there were a total of 1903 precincts shown in their reports. Of these, 257 are absentee ballot type, and the remainder, 1646, are physical precincts.

When they first start displaying the results, they show 257 precincts reporting. These are actually the absentee ballot types. But, these are only partially counted at that time. The physical precincts come in a bit later, and they are essentially completely counted as soon as they report. The ballots are scanned at the polling place so the results from those precincts can be updated immediately. So as soon as more precincts are "reporting" they are actually completed with their counting.

Meanwhile, the initial 257 ballot types have not been finished being counted until over a week later. When you read "100% precincts reporting" it implies that they are done being counted, but that is not the case. The initial 257 pseudo-precincts aren't finished until later. The Union-Trib acts like the election is over, but a large percentage of the ballots were not yet counted. I don't think most people understand this.

To make matters worse, more and more people are signing up to be permanent absentee voters. This year, they said over 350,000 voters were permanent absentees. In 2002, it was only about 15,000. That's a huge change and their reporting has not kept up.

If they were to report this correctly, they would say that 0% are counted until they are actually finished counting them. At the end of the first day, they still had 65,000 ballots to scan. That means the 257 "precincts" are not counted yet, and in our area, and only 48% of the precincts are fully counted. I'm sure they don't do this because everyone expects them to be done right away, and so they produce this deceptive output.

-- Raymond Lutz - 09 Nov 2006