How American election data actually works — the boundary changes, ballot quirks and reporting gaps that quietly corrupt the numbers everyone else publishes.
Eight county-equivalents retired, nine planning regions adopted, and no crosswalk between them that is honest — so our Connecticut series stops at the old vintage rather than guessing at the new one.
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Group certified Connecticut 2010 returns by party and the arithmetic is perfect, the winner is wrong, and nothing raises an error.
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Alaska certifies presidential results by state house district, not by borough — so Politigoat stores 41 districts across seven cycles and publishes no borough figures at all.
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FIPS codes look like serial numbers, but they are positions in an alphabetized list — and three renames since 1997 are enough to cut a county's history into two unusable halves.
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