1884 Popular Vote Totals

[rbt48]

I just noticed that the popular vote totals for 1884 have swelled, along with margin of Cleveland's plurality (now 58,549 votes instead of 25,685 votes).

The revised vote totals are as follows:
Presidential   Political                   Popular Vote   
Candidate   Party      

Grover Cleveland   Democratic   4,914,482   48.85% James Blaine   Republican   4,856,903   48.28% John St. John   Prohibition     150,890                     1.50% Benjamin Butler   Greenback     134,294                     1.33% Write-ins   -                                      3,576                     0.04%

The totals used to be these numbers:

Presidential   Political                   Popular Vote   
Candidate   Party      

Grover Cleveland           Democratic    4,874,621   48.50% James Blaine                                      Republican   4,848,936   48.25% John St. John                                 Prohibition   175,096                     1.74% Benjamin Butler                             Greenback   147,482                     1.47% Write-ins                                                   -                        3,619                     0.04%

Also, Cleveland's narrow (and crucial) margin in New York grew from 1,047 votes to 1,149.

Here are the old state-by-state totals:  http://members.cox.net/rbt48/weather/Presidential_Elections/1884%20election%20spreadsheet.pdf

If anyone has background information about the new totals, I would like to know the details.

[Badger]

Obviously the work of ACORN!

[rbt48]

Obviously the work of ACORN!

That's just too cute.  But seriously, it does seem somewhat odd for revised vote totals of such a great magnitude to show up 126 years after the election.  

As I count it, this adds 10,391 votes to the earlier total.  Even stranger, while it adds 39,860 to Cleveland and 7,866 to Blaine, it takes away 24,206 from St. John, and 13,188 from Butler.  Also, write-ins decrease by 43.  

This will indeed be interesting to learn what happened!