Weird numbers being reported in #txlege #tx148 race - Harris Votes shows 91,593 registered voters total in the district. Their results have Penny Shaw, the Democrat, winning the traditionally Democratic district 38,158 to the GOP candidate's 21,780.
Those Harris Votes numbers are in line with past elections in this same seat ~ usually around 50-60K votes cast. The district is entirely within Harris County, so all the numbers shown on Harris Votes should be all the votes there are in the race. Then, it gets weird.
Texas SoS website & @KPRC2 show LaRotta (R) with 173,311 votes to 37,470 Shaw (D). That's 212,781 total votes, which is more than twice the number of registered voters in the district.
The @HoustonChron has Shaw with 38,046 votes, LaRotta with 21,705, but has given LaRotta the green check mark indicating he is the winner. Which by those numbers he is not. @KHOU is LaRotta 173,383, Shaw 34,891.
These are ALL unofficial results obviously. WTF though?
These are ALL unofficial results obviously. WTF though?
I took all of this from these outlets' website between 5:40 and 5:50 this morning. Official results will no doubt show Penny Shaw winning. But how do such disparate numbers get posted?
OK, @TexasTribune shows the same batshit bonkers results but also that something called Decision Desk HQ has bad numbers & they're checking into it. DDHQ is a service that aggregates results for news orgs, it seems. So how do they fuck this up?
So @DecisionDeskHQ ... really, REALLY want to know how you got #tx148 so wrong.
And also, does this mean that the Secretary of State is showing numbers from a news service site rather than counties' numbers? I mean, they are unofficial results, all of them, but still.
Maybe we should all go back to bed for a few hours.
Maybe we should all go back to bed for a few hours.
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