The Warrick County, Indiana Clerk has recently
announced a discovery that 3,791 early ballots cast in the 2012 General Election were left uncounted in the official results published.
An analysis of the normalized turnout of the county (subtracting the statewide turnout vs. registered voters from the county turnout vs. registered voters) shows the following data:
| Year | Reg | County | State | Difference |
| 2012 | 49,971 | 49.4% | 57.7% | -8.3% |
| 2008 | 46,718 | 61.5% | 61.1% | 0.4% |
| 2004 | 43,329 | 60.1% | 57.4% | 2.7% |
| 2000 | 39,016 | 57.2% | 55.1% | 2.1% |
| 1996 | 31,582 | 66.8% | 61.2% | 5.6% |
| 1992 | 27,539 | 74.9% | 72.5% | 2.4% |
| 1988 | 23,725 | 78.2% | 75.7% | 2.5% |
| 1984 | 22,701 | 73.3% | 73.2% | 0.1% |
| 1980 | 20,629 | 80.3% | 76.1% | 4.2% |
The mean from 1980-2008 is 2.5 with the standard deviation of 1.69. the -8.3 is 6.4 standard deviations from the mean. Very likely an error in total votes recorded in Warrick.
