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When I provided better numbers that were available from the cited source, my edits were quickly reverted. I had found that the Wikipedia articles on Cardin and the 2012 Maryland did not provide a citation, but did provide the raw numbers: The correct final numbers are 1,474,028 for Cardin, almost 72,000 more than he got in the early NYT accounting. Sobhani got 430,934 votes in the final count, a gain of over 10,000. Although the Times noted that "99%" of precincts reported, that doesn't mean that all or any of their reporting was complete. I suspect that write ins, challenged and perhaps even absentee ballots were not accounted for in the cited story. I don't have a dog in this fight, but the numbers provided prior to my changes were clearly wrong. "17%" is an inflation of Sobhani's results total, however minor. If an editor has not declared a COI in this page, it's time to do so. My numbers should stand and I would welcome any editor getting current #s from the MD SOS. Activist (talk) 20:24, 16 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
The edit was reverted because it cited no new source and the numbers disagreed with the existing source citation that followed them. When you update numbers like this, please cite your source, and, more over, please don't pair new values with a contradictory source. -- Pemilligan (talk) 21:02, 16 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Oh, I guess I've been a very bad person. I went to the Sobhani page because there was some controversy on Wikipedia regarding the declaration of candidacy of Chelsea Manning for the 2018 race, and vandalism of that page. The source, it turned out, was quite inaccurate and as I'd guessed, taken from election day figures, rather than final figures that counted absentee, challenged, provisional, etc., ballots. I left it because it noted that Sobhani's total was the best ever for a non-"R" or "D" candiate. I didn't have time to sort it all out, but gave the proper figures. You could have done the same research as I did and found the citation. I need to get back to my teleconference. By the way, "moreover" is one word. Activist (talk) 22:01, 16 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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