Dave Leip's Atlas, CNN and Wikipedia have different numbers for the popular vote
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« on: November 18, 2016, 04:51:00 PM »

CNN and Wikipedia have similar numbers.
Dave Leip's numbers are different. Leip's percentages are smaller, because Leip's is counting the write-ins.
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« Reply #1 on: November 18, 2016, 06:23:35 PM »

Dave's numbers are virtually always most accurate.
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« Reply #2 on: November 19, 2016, 04:14:13 PM »

The official popular vote numbers for 2008 are here:
https://www.archives.gov/federal-register/electoral-college/2008/popular-vote.html
and Dave counted about 440,000 more.  Write-ins were 260,000 and do not account for the difference.
The official vote for 2012 is here:
https://www.archives.gov/federal-register/electoral-college/2012/popular-vote.html
And Dave counted about 680,000 more, write-ins were 284,000 again not enough to account for the difference.







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« Reply #3 on: November 19, 2016, 04:20:14 PM »

Sometimes states certify clearly incorrect totals due to uncaught transpositions and the like. In general, getting results from county clerks/board will be more accurate than state-level results.
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