Daggett Co UT in 1984

[Stuart98]

Three years late but it was just pointed out to me that the answer becomes obvious when looking at the vote totals.

1976: 217 R 131 D
1980: 290 R 109 D
1984: 296 R 227 D
1988: 272 R 132 D

Mondale didn't have this stunning improvement over Carter, someone accidentally wrote down 227 instead of 127 and it never got caught.

[Stuart98]

Three years late but it was just pointed out to me that the answer becomes obvious when looking at the vote totals.

1976: 217 R 131 D
1980: 290 R 109 D
1984: 296 R 227 D
1988: 272 R 132 D

Mondale didn't have this stunning improvement over Carter, someone accidentally wrote down 227 instead of 127 and it never got caught.

How is this confirmed, by who?  I hadn’t seen that, but it would be a logical answer to a very odd result in such a low populated county.

It's not confirmed confirmed, but Mondale gained ~100 new democratic voters compared to the elections immediately preceding and succeeding this one while other votes were mostly static and he also got dozens more votes than D state row office candidates while, again, the R votes were static.

Also the results spreadsheet lists the number of people voting in Daggett county as only 429; adding up all the votes for president in 1984 gives a total vote count of 525. There were more votes for president than people voting. It's extremely obvious what happened here. Actual total votes for president was 425 plus 4 write-ins or undervotes, Mondale got 100 more votes recorded than he should have.