New Hampshire Primary Totals

[JohnHurt]

https://www.npr.org/live-updates/electi ... ry-results

New Hampshire Primary totals as of this morning:

Republicans:
Trump: 163,700
Haley: 129,646
Other: 6,752
Total: 300,098

Democrats:
Biden (Write in): 54,570
Dean Phillips: 20,976
Unprocessed Write in: 14,967
Other write in: 6,583
Marianne Williamson: 5,016
Derek Nadeau: 1,180
Total: 103,292

New Hampshire, which is usually a Democrat state, had a 3-1 turnout of Republicans over Democrats in the primary. That is not good for Biden in the general election.

Biden was a write in candidate, here is what NPR said:

https://www.npr.org/live-updates/electi ... e-in-votes

How election officials are handling those 'unprocessed write-in' votes

Maybe the greatest oddity of tonight’s presidential primary in New Hampshire is the write-in campaign for the sitting president of the United States, Joe Biden.

Due to a dispute over the primary calendar, Biden wasn’t on the ballot in New Hampshire and the national party says the results of tonight’s vote will be “meaningless” for delegate allocation at this summer’s convention. Still, there was a primary and volunteers in the state banded together to write Biden in.

According to the AP, he won.

But all those “unprocessed write-in” votes (as they’re initially listed in the unofficial results) still need to be counted by voting officials.

The reason they initially came through that way, instead of as votes for the incumbent president or any other candidate, is because the scanners officials use to tabulate votes can’t read write-in candidates. Instead, the machines tabulate the total amount of write-ins in a batch, and then election officials manually sort them based on who was written-in.

Local precinct administrators are instructed to look for voter intent when reading write-in votes, said New Hampshire Secretary of State David Scanlan.

“The moderators know how to do that job,” he said.

An earlier total showed Biden with only 1,900 write in votes to Dean Phillips 20,967 votes.

What do you think?

I still don't understand how the totals could be "meaningless" for delegate allocation.

[Josh]

The Democratic Party decided that New Hampshire simply won’t send any delegates to their convention and won’t be involved at all in choosing who their candidate is.

[Ken]

The Democratic party decided that South Carolina would be their first primary.

New Hampshire decided to go first anyway but the official Democratic party pointedly ignored it and Biden wasn't on the ballot. So the vast number of write-in Ballots will turn out to be for Biden, even though they won't count for delegates to the convention. But Biden will still get at least 3/4 of the votes.

Basically there won't be any New Hampshire delegates voting in the Democratic convention next summer. Or else they might just give them to Biden anyway at the last minute. It won't make any difference either way. He will be the nominee.

Also because the Democratic party wasn't officially participating in the primary, Democrats could cross the aisle and vote in the Republican party. Some of those Haley votes were no doubt Democrats. Also some Trump votes. Registered Democrats can't vote in the Republican primary, but independents can and a lot of Democratic leaning voters are actually registered unaffiliated. And it is a trivial exercise to drop your party affiliation and I think it can be done online.