Thus, while the winner might have changed if a thorough recount had been conducted, and although there are inherent ambiguities when the margin of victory is so small, the outcome is extremely unlikely to have changed based on the missing precincts alone.
Extrapolations that we were making earlier based on the initial precincts there had assumed that Mr. Santorum would gain rather than lose ground in Clermont — which would have been key to counteracting uncounted votes in Cleveland's Cuyahoga County, which have gone for Mr. Romney so far.
This method is potentially more reliable than making extrapolations based on the number of precincts that have have reported in each county, since precincts can vary significantly within a county in the number of voters they contain.
A simpler approach is to be to extrapolate out the results based on the percentage of precincts that have reported in each county so far.
Terry Vaughan, the supervisor of elections in Bradford County and president of the Florida State Association of Supervisors of Elections, said the $28 million figure was based on the number of precincts in the state during the 2006 election, but that number has since grown.
But 67 of Texas' 193 pledged delegates are assigned based on the results of the "precinct conventions," or caucuses.
If I project out the remaining Cook County precincts based on the previous ones, I show Dillard picking up another 800 votes and Brady another 225.
And based on the unofficial results from these precincts, they were generally strong ones for Mr. Santorum.
"The Tea Party got busy organizing on a precinct level based on the issues".
When the Social Club's representatives tried to raise grievances with him, Curtis set up his own grievance committee to handle management-employee disputes, based on the election of representatives from each precinct house by secret ballot, and it met just once.
