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
An earlier total showed Biden with only 1,900 write in votes to Dean Phillips 20,967 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.
What do you think?
I still don't understand how the totals could be "meaningless" for delegate allocation.