On December 22, the Associated Press announced that Hillary Clinton received 65,844,610 votes, and Donald Trump received 62,979,636. The AP appears to use the 2016 National Popular Vote Tracker from Google Sheets, a Google Doc. But even those sources, as of the evening of December 22, appear not to have noticed that New York revised its vote totals twice this week. These sources captured the data from the first New York revision, but not today’s further revision.
This is also true for the Cook Political
But David Leip’s US Election Atlas does have the latest New York returns, as of the evening of December 22.
The Wikipedia page for the 2016 presidential election has a very inaccurate set of figures for Rhode Island. The wikipedia author used the Rhode Island totals for votes cast at the polls, but left out the absentee votes. The Wikipedia page is locked. If anyone knows how to communicate this to Wikipedia, that would be a good deed.
The Wikipedia page was semi-protected because of vandalism. You have to have had an account for a certain while and made a certain number of edits (both relatively low thresholds) before updating the page. They had listed a source at the RI Board of Elections, whose numbers didn’t match what they had, but did match the current numbers that Leip has. So I updated to reflect the current numbers at the cited source. Hopefully, that makes it unlikely to be reverted by someone who thinks they know better. I didn’t update the corresponding national numbers, which seem to come from a different source.
Also – perhaps try to get AP with its genius reporters to do a final-final-final update of the Prez stats.
Election math is now almost like having estimates of stuff — how many sand grains on ocean shores, how many stars in the universe, etc.
2 is more than 1 — not sure any more due to dubious election stats ???