Strange data in 2016 Precinct results

[hodgesmr]

The data is formatted a little weird in the 2016 precinct results.

Some examples:

• Butler,FAIR2WD1,AAB,President (at-large),,R,Donald J. Trump,93 (is at-large desirable?)
• Butler,FAIR2WD1,AAB,President (district),8,R,Jeb Bush,1 (are district and 8 desirable?)
• Butler,FAIR2WD1,AAB,U.S. House,"08 (idle ", leading zero)
• Unexpired Term Ending 01/03/2017",R,Matthew Ashworth,1 (Probably erroneous data?)

[dwillis]

In the GOP primary only, presidential votes are cast for both at-large and within a congressional district, so those results are desirable. But it looks like the House one has that idle quotemark. The unexpired term thing does warrant investigation - Ashworth ran in the primary for Boehner's seat, but not the unexpired term contest on the same day.

[christopherjenness]

@dwillis have you looked into this? Otherwise, I can take a stab.

[dwillis]

@christopherjenness Thanks! The presidential stuff is as it should be - Ohio reports GOP presidential primary results by congressional district and a statewide "At-large" district. The stray quotemarks are worth looking at, though, as is the line(s) with Ashworth mentioning unexpired term.

[warwickmm]

I believe the following strange entries are simply due to an unnecessary line break. The matching ending quote appears on the next line.

Butler,U.S. House,"08
Unexpired Term Ending 01/03/2017",R,Matthew Ashworth,698

Removing the line break yields

Butler,U.S. House,"08 Unexpired Term Ending 01/03/2017",R,Matthew Ashworth,698

There are several examples of this:

However, like @dwillis mentioned above, it's not clear if the "office" 08 Unexpired Term Ending 01/03/2017 is correct. If you look at the right side of the screenshot immediately after the highlighted section, there are additional entries with the same candidates for U.S. House District 8 for Butler County.

[warwickmm]

Here are the corresponding results from the Butler County Board of Elections site.

The "unexpired term" vote totals agree with the ones from the "08 Unexpired Term Ending 01/03/2017" entries:

The "full term" vote totals agree with the ones from the "U.S. House,8" entries: