Overcount in New York

[jamesdunham]

Per #2 and @wtadler, there are too many votes for president in NY. Summing over precinct totals gives 4,572,604 for Clinton and 2,839,482 for Trump. The certified results (xls) show 4,379,783 and 2,527,141.

On inspection:

• The overcount is distributed across jurisdictions.
• Spot checks show the same in the OE source data, so we'll follow and resolve this upstream.
• The issue probably affects other races.

[dwillis]

I've begun looking at our source data and so far have found two counties where we have total rows included in the precinct files, which if not excluded would result in double-counting. I'm removing those rows from our files.

openelections/openelections-data-ny#52