Interesting results from your state

[MarkD]

The most interesting thing I can see going on in the unofficial results in Missouri is the botched job the Missouri Secretary of State has done with handling the "election night reports" from all the local/county election officials.
Many of the biggest counties in Missouri reported, on election night, only the total number of write-in votes cast, without addressing whether the write-ins were valid, for official candidates, nor without any breakdown of which candidates got how many votes. There were five official write-in candidates, and those five were listed in this order: Marshall Schoenke, Tom Hoefling, Laurence Kotlikoff, Evan McMullin, and Rocky De La Fuente. It is pretty obvious to me that McMullin should be getting a huge majority of all valid write-in votes. But the preliminary reports are the only vote totals that the Missouri Secretary of State has on their website, and apparently the folks in the state capitol who tabulate the reports from each local/county election authority, if they have only a total number of write-in votes cast and no breakdown, are attributing all of the write-in votes to Marshall Schoenke. So the SoS website, even now, two weeks after the vote, has that Schoenke received 11,503 write-in votes, McMullin received only 1,372 write-in votes, and 49 other votes were split among the other three candidates. This makes no sense. I am guessing that of those 11,503, thousands of them will end up being confirmed as having actually been invalid votes, and that McMullin will get nearly all of the rest.