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In reply to the discussion: The so-called "bullet ballots" and too many voting for president only [View all]onenote
(44,717 posts)For the umpteenth time, a bullet ballot is a ballot in which the voter cast a vote in one race and ignored all the other contest on the ballot. All of them. So the number of bullet ballots in the presidential race in any state cannot be larger than the total number of ballots cast in any other state-wide race on the ballot, such as Senate or Governor. It's just simple math.
Spoonamore could not be more clear in how he defines a bullet ballot, and it is not how you are trying to define it. From one of his letters:
"North Carolina is the most extreme. The public results indicate over 350K voters cast a ballot for Trump and no other race making up over 11% of Trumps voters in NC drop off votes or bullet ballots.
Of course, Spoonamore has absolutely no way to know how many bullet ballots were cast in North Carolina let alone how many were for Trump alone. By his analysis, you would have to subtract 350,000 votes from Trump, not add any to Harris so that the total number of votes cast in the presidential race was 5,328,667 while the total number of votes in the governor's race would still be 5,590,469. The idea that more than 260,000 voters cast ballots in the Governor's race but not in the Presidential race is ludicrous.