{"id":1490,"date":"2010-08-17T23:07:58","date_gmt":"2010-08-18T06:07:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lewiscountysirens.com\/?p=1490"},"modified":"2010-08-18T00:18:49","modified_gmt":"2010-08-18T07:18:49","slug":"primary-election-preliminary-results-why-are-the-percentages-im-reporting-slightly-different-from-what-is-showing-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/?p=1490","title":{"rendered":"Primary election preliminary results: Why are the percentages I&#8217;m reporting slightly different from what is showing online?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1499\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/2010.0817.primary.meyer_.2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1499\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1499\" title=\"Jonathan Meyer primary\" src=\"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/2010.0817.primary.meyer_.2.jpg\" alt=\"2010.0817.primary.meyer.2\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/2010.0817.primary.meyer_.2.jpg 400w, https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/2010.0817.primary.meyer_.2-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1499\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lewis County prosecutor candidate Jonathan Meyer looks at the primary election preliminary results shortly after 8 p.m. tonight at the Lewis County Auditors Office.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1500\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/2010.0817.primary.golden_2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1500\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1500\" title=\"Michael Golden primary\" src=\"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/2010.0817.primary.golden_2.jpg\" alt=\"2010.0817.primary.golden_2\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/2010.0817.primary.golden_2.jpg 400w, https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/2010.0817.primary.golden_2-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1500\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Incumbent Lewis County Prosecutor Michael Golden looks over the primary preliminary results just after 8 p.m. tonight.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Don&#8217;t know for sure.<\/p>\n<p>But the difference is small and I&#8217;m not going to phone Gary Zandell and ask about it at this time of night.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m looking at the hard copy handed out in the Lewis County Auditors Office printed at 8:07 p.m. tonight, and presumably the same hard copy as was passed out to the many folks who gathered there tonight.<\/p>\n<p>The number of votes each candidate got, for the races I&#8217;m looking at, are the same on this hard copy as they are on the web site through the Auditors Office. But each of them show a slightly higher percentage online.<\/p>\n<p>I suspect it has something to do with what Zandell and his people call under votes and over votes. It&#8217;s related to ballots in which a voter might ignore a race or where they might inadvertently &#8230;. do something else, or some such thing.<\/p>\n<p>More ballots, such as the ones put in the mail today, will be tallied on Friday. The primary election will be certified Sept. 1.<\/p>\n<p>Look at the results in more detail <a title=\"Lewis County Auditor's Office, election results\" href=\"http:\/\/wei.secstate.wa.gov\/lewis\/currentelection\/ElectionResults\/Pages\/ElectionResults.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t know for sure. But the difference is small and I&#8217;m not going to phone Gary Zandell and ask about it at this time of night. I&#8217;m looking at the hard copy handed out in the Lewis County Auditors Office printed at 8:07 p.m. tonight, and presumably the same hard copy as was passed out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[9,10],"class_list":["post-1490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs","tag-by-sharyn-l-decker","tag-news-reporter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1490"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1501,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1490\/revisions\/1501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}