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TheCavis t1_ivq3z4k wrote

It’s a map error. Unofficial results from the town website.

216 blank, 2323 yes, 444 no.

It looks like they entered it as “yes, no, blank” instead of “blank, yes, no” when they made the map.

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nrvs_hbt OP t1_ivqohbi wrote

Wow thanks so much for digging and finding this out!

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Gravity_Beetle t1_ivqhomj wrote

This is clearly the answer. I have encountered similar transcription errors in voting records before -- it doesn't seem to be that uncommon.

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TheCavis t1_ivrkq9j wrote

I agree on it not being uncommon. I ran across a bunch of weird results from Charlton last night that had a similar issue, except there were errors in both the unofficial results (since updated) and the map results in different places. It gave 5000-1 result for one of the questions, which is a lot more obvious than this sort of error.

It’s just tough to perfectly parse this much data from this many towns and hard to find errors like this unless you’re specifically looking for specific weirdness in a particular area on a particular question. It all gets cleared up for the official results, so it’s just a matter of slightly annoying us impatient people who need our data now.

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