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Why does the number of male voters plus the number of female voters not add up to the total number of voters?

April 26, 2017female Male Plus total voters

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Why does the number of male voters plus the number of female voters not add up to the total number of voters?

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When gender is not provided by the source, we assign a sex based on the FIRSTNAME. For some names, we can’t be sure (Pat, Chris, etc.), and for uncommon names, we simply don’t know.