Has anyone noticed that, according to our database, Write-ins won Polk County?
Dave's been having some trouble with Oregon lately. He had write-ins besting Trump in Benton County for a while.
Oregon did update to a new county>state reporting interface for the 2016 General Election, and although I didn't notice any issue with Benton County on the state website, this could be part of the reason for the glitch with Polk County numbers.
I generally work off of the data on the county websites, since I can get raw precinct level data more quickly, and export into spreadsheet software and also many counties don't participate with the precinct level data part of the software yet (Fingers crossed that this will go statewide in 2018).
I do like the fact that for some counties you can get a visual representation of precinct data, and since we don't have a uniform GiS, Shapefile system, I haven't been able to provide graphical representation to the precinct level data I've been reviewing, so for some of the counties I've covered (Clatsop, Columbia, Coos, Benton, Marion, and parts of Yamhill, you can review the precinct maps on the website after checking my city level breakdowns and descriptions if interested.
It isn't just Polk County; Lincoln County has impossible-to-believe data about write-in votes too, according to the Sec. of State's website. In fact because of Lincoln and Polk Counties having clearly over-stated data about write-in votes, the Sos is now reporting 124,988 write-in votes, which is greater than Gary Johnson's votes.
