I think that it is also reasonable to assume that some people [349 of them] could have cared less about what was on the second card and walked out with it rather than take the time to fill it out and cast it, thus the 247,713 number.
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Who knows what goes on when a person votes. I quite often don’t vote on all the lines, could care less about some of the items.
I’m okay with their hard count. Now there maybe have been fraud around but I believe the machine count is what they had to work with. Not all things are divisible by two like some are trying to do with this situation. Either you voted for President or you didn’t and that spot on your ballot showed one or the other and isn’t dependent upon whether you voted the other pages. Also don’t forget that some on FR have indicated they’d not vote for president if so and so was on the ticket.
Wait until these people get computer type devices to vote with, mark the square/touch the screen, review your choices and hit send to cyber space or some storage device to be read by another computer. Paper trails are going away.
I like my paper vote.
Mitt wasn’t my first choice, or second, but I bit the bullet and supported what I thought would be a chance at slowing down the demise, and inked in between the arrows for R/R.
Heck, the touch screen on this Pan Digital 7” tablet I have to use is all over the place. I like my pen and paper. Nice big arrows I can see!
Note from the data you provided that it even accounted for those who did not vote for President [397] as well as those who over voted [43]:
Times Blank Voted 397
Times Over Voted 43