2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Hold onto your hats, Wisconsin audit/recount: WTF! Greater than 100% voter turnout [View all]Thor_MN
(11,843 posts)To print voter rolls, you know precisely how many registered voters there are. A precinct (Wards in Wisconsin) knows how many new registrations were done on election day, they processed them. Update Voter Rolls can (are) delivered to the precinct to cover last minute registrations the in the days before the election. Registered Voters is the sum of the Voter Roll, Update sheets and new registrations done election day.
In the precinct I worked in Minnesota, we knew the number of registered voters the second the polls were closed - BEFORE we printed the results from the tabulation machine. The guy working new registrations was a monster, he did it solo, all day and processed new registrations about 8% of preregistered voters.
Side note, it is damn near impossible to have turnouts in the 90%. Registered voters die - there is no process to automatically remove them from the rolls. If you have 100% turnout, then there were ballots created for dead people and people that moved.
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