Asking unasked Sherburne County questions

While Sherburne County wastes its time patting itself on the back for successfully performing a recount for the HD-14B election, they failed to answer multiple questions that remain unasked. It's time for the self-congratulating to stop and for the heavy lifting to start.

I haven't spent time congratulating myself for compiling these questions but I'm willing to share these questions with the public:

  1.  First, which precincts didn't upload properly? Or was it just a single precinct in Sherburne County that didn't upload properly?
  2. How many ballots did Sherburne County initially miss? Was it less than 50? Was it more than 100 ballots?
  3. When did Sherburne County first notice that the upload didn't work properly?
  4. What date/time was it fixed?
  5. The first vote total with 100% of precincts reporting showed Sue Ek leading Rep. Wolgamott by the margin of 9,704-9,700. The final vote total shown with 100% of precincts reporting showed Rep. Wolgamott leading Ms. Ek 10,005-9,814. Is this total accurate?
  6. If it's accurate, that means that the vote total changed by 415 votes, with Rep. Wolgamott winning 305 of those 415 votes. That means Rep. Wolgamott won 73.5% of those 415 votes. How realistic is that final number? After all, the SOS website says that Rep. Wolgamott won with 50.4% of the vote. That's a gap of 23.1% of the vote.
In this interview, it's reported that County Administrator Bruce Messelt thinks that the recount proves that Minnesota gets its elections right:

In that same interview, Commissioner Andrew Hulse said that "I spent the next 2 weeks correcting incorrect and misleading information." The verbatim quote from Messelt is "The reality is is that these hand recounts and the ones that we'll be doing in the next week I think reaffirm that Minnesota does their elections right." Messelt says that "One small piece of that data, and in this case, it was the mail-in voting that we tabulated here that; it didn't get uploaded to the Secretary off State's website..."

Regardless of what Messelt said, this mistake is alarming. If this is just an uploading error, something that I'm still not certain of, then it's a big error. Missing 415 votes, whether they're mail-in or day of ballots, is a significant number of votes to miss. Check this out:

To Mr. Messelt, your definition of "does their elections right" is different than most people's definition.

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