2026 Henry County, MO Primary · Actual Vote analysis

Sample comparisons — what this analysis looks like

Ten of the 41 comparisons, opened all the way up: the poll-tape reading beside the official certified figure, and a citation to exactly where that figure sits in the county's own published results — so anyone can check it.

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The main report states that every value on the released Fairview tape matches the county’s certified results, except one one-vote difference disclosed in full there. Nobody has to take that on trust: the tape scans the county released are reproduced on this page (each card links to the relevant scan), and the certified Statement of Votes Cast is published on Henry County’s own website, so anyone can check the work. It is just slow, dull work that takes some practice — so this page does ten of them for you, in full.

Neither side has been retyped. On the left is a crop of the county’s scan of the tape — the actual pixels. On the right is the figure Henry County certified, with the exact path to it inside the county’s published Statement of Votes Cast, so you can open that file and find the same number yourself.

How these ten were chosen. By a fixed stride — every fourth row of the comparison dataset in tape order, starting from the first (rows 1, 5, 9, … 37 of the 41) — not by hand, so the selection cannot flatter the outcome. Unlike our video-based analyses, this one has a single provenance: the county released still-image scans rather than volunteer video, and every value was read by a person from those scans (there was no AI transcription step to mix in). Where one crop shows a whole contest, the same crop appears against more than one candidate.

1
State Auditor (Republican)
✓ exact match

What the poll tape printed

Crop of the Fairview tape showing the State Auditor (Rep) contest, with Scott Fitzpatrick at 120

Scott Fitzpatrick120 (read by a person from the county's scans)

Official certified result

SCOTT FITZPATRICK120

Source & location

Election Results 8-4-2026 Official.pdf

Statement of Votes Cast p.1/54 → STATE AUDITOR (REPUBLICAN PARTY) → FAIRVIEW → Normal = 120
2
US Representative, District 4 (Republican)
✓ exact match

What the poll tape printed

Crop of the Fairview tape showing the US Representative District 4 (Rep) contest, with Scott Vincent Vera at 10

Scott Vincent Vera10 (read by a person from the county's scans)

Official certified result

SCOTT VINCENT VERA10

Source & location

Election Results 8-4-2026 Official.pdf

Statement of Votes Cast p.2/54 → US REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT 4 (REPUBLICAN PARTY) → FAIRVIEW → Normal = 10
3
State Representative, District 126 (Republican)
✓ exact match

What the poll tape printed

Crop of the Fairview tape showing the State Representative District 126 (Rep) contest, with Jim Kalberloh at 128

Jim Kalberloh128 (read by a person from the county's scans)

Official certified result

JIM KALBERLOH128

Source & location

Election Results 8-4-2026 Official.pdf

Statement of Votes Cast p.4/54 → STATE REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT 126 (REPUBLICAN PARTY) → FAIRVIEW → Normal = 128
4
Presiding Commissioner (Republican)
✓ exact match

What the poll tape printed

Crop of the Fairview tape showing the Presiding Commissioner (Rep) contest, with Miles Wirsig at 30

Miles Wirsig30 (read by a person from the county's scans)

Official certified result

MILES WIRSIG30

Source & location

Election Results 8-4-2026 Official.pdf

Statement of Votes Cast p.6/54 → PRESIDING COMMISSIONER (REPUBLICAN PARTY) → FAIRVIEW → Normal = 30
5
State Auditor (Democratic)
✓ exact match

What the poll tape printed

Crop of the Fairview tape showing the State Auditor (Dem) contest, with Quentin Wilson at 18

Quentin Wilson18 (read by a person from the county's scans)

Official certified result

QUENTIN WILSON18

Source & location

Election Results 8-4-2026 Official.pdf

Statement of Votes Cast p.10/54 → STATE AUDITOR (DEMOCRATIC PARTY) → FAIRVIEW → Normal = 18
6
US Representative, District 4 (Democratic)
✓ exact match

What the poll tape printed

Crop of the Fairview tape showing the US Representative District 4 (Dem) contest, with Hartzell Gray III at 0

Hartzell Gray III0 (read by a person from the county's scans)

Official certified result

HARTZELL GRAY III0

Source & location

Election Results 8-4-2026 Official.pdf

Statement of Votes Cast p.12/54 → US REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT 4 (DEMOCRATIC PARTY) → FAIRVIEW → Normal = 0
7
US Representative, District 4 (Democratic)
✓ exact match

What the poll tape printed

Crop of the Fairview tape showing the US Representative District 4 (Dem) contest, with Randy Miller at 7

Randy Miller7 (read by a person from the county's scans)

Official certified result

RANDY MILLER7

Source & location

Election Results 8-4-2026 Official.pdf

Statement of Votes Cast p.12/54 → US REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT 4 (DEMOCRATIC PARTY) → FAIRVIEW → Normal = 7
8
Prosecuting Attorney (Democratic)
✓ exact match

What the poll tape printed

Crop of the Fairview tape showing the Prosecuting Attorney (Dem) contest, with Fred R. Bunch at 24

Fred R. Bunch24 (read by a person from the county's scans)

Official certified result

FRED R. BUNCH24

Source & location

Election Results 8-4-2026 Official.pdf

Statement of Votes Cast p.16/54 → PROSECUTING ATTORNEY (DEMOCRATIC PARTY) → FAIRVIEW → Normal = 24
9
Fairview Township Committeeman (Republican)
✓ exact match

What the poll tape printed

Crop of the Fairview tape showing the Fairview Township Committeeman (Rep) contest, with David Scott Bayless at 37

David Scott Bayless37 (read by a person from the county's scans)

Official certified result

DAVID SCOTT BAYLESS37

Source & location

Election Results 8-4-2026 Official.pdf

Statement of Votes Cast p.34/54 → FAIRVIEW TOWNSHIP COMMITEEMAN (REPUBLICAN PARTY) → FAIRVIEW → Normal = 37
10
Constitutional Amendment No. 2
✓ exact match

What the poll tape printed

Crop of the Fairview tape showing Constitutional Amendment No. 2, with No at 38

No38 (read by a person from the county's scans)

Official certified result

NO38

Source & location

Election Results 8-4-2026 Official.pdf

Statement of Votes Cast p.51/54 → CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT NO. 2 → FAIRVIEW → Normal = 38

These are a representative sample drawn mechanically from the analysis — a fixed stride through the sorted results, or a seeded random draw, never a hand-picked set — so they illustrate the method rather than flatter the outcome. Which method was used is stated above. The complete comparison set, and every difference investigated, are in the full report.

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