Northern Victoria: Tully's Dodgy Tally

In another example of just how shoddy Tully's Tally is were compare the information published by the VEC for Northern Victoria.

On the Official VEC published website we extract the following information

Recheck votes

Total Enrolment as at close of rolls:	429217
Formal Votes:	389721
Informal Votes:	11177 (2.79% of the total votes)
Total Votes:	400898 (93.40% of the total enrolment as at the close of rolls rechecked)
Quota:	64946

Recheck first preference votes

	Group	Above the line	Below the line	Total votes	% of formal vote	Quota
A	COUNTRY ALLIANCE	24537	2123	26660	6.84%	0.41
B	CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATIC PARTY (FRED NILE GROUP)	2112	438	2550	0.65%	0.04
C	FAMILY FIRST	10767	672	11439	2.94%	0.18
D	AUSTRALIAN GREENS	27891	3319	31210	8.01%	0.48
E	LIBERAL / THE NATIONALS	186566	4335	190901	48.98%	2.94
F	AUSTRALIAN LABOR PARTY	103479	2311	105790	27.15%	1.63
G	SEX PARTY	14172	710	14882	3.82%	0.23
H	D.L.P. - DEMOCRATIC LABOR PARTY	5880	409	6289	1.61%	0.10

The total number of formal votes recorded in the above table shows

	ATL	BTL	TOTAL
	375404	14317	389721

When you examine the final details published by the VEC you get a different total? 59 votes difference in the total formal votes recorded. 

Total ATL Votes	Total BTL Votes	Formal	Informal	Total Votes
375,457	14,216	389,673	11,220	400,893

Clearly there is something wrong with the VEC procedures as the tally does not tally. The data certainly looks doctored and begs the question how good is the 13 million dollar sofwtare that the VEC invested in. Looks mickey mouse to us. Oh and the BTL data files does not match up either, which might explain why Steve tully did not want to make this data available. It's rule of thumb when it comes to Tully's Tally. Tully's near enough is good enough approcah is not really good enough.