As is currently reported:
The 6 Republican House candidates combined for roughly 750,000 votes.
The 6 Democrat House candidates combined for roughly 900,000 votes.
Roughly 40,000 House votes combined went to Independents or minority party candidates.
The Republican Governor candidate (Drazan) has roughly 750,000 votes.
The Democrat Governor candidate (Kotek) has roughly 815,000 votes.
The Independent Governor candidate (Johnson) has roughly 150,000 votes.
Two other Governor candidates have a combined 11,000
I calculate 1,689,974 total House votes, but 1,729,387 total Governor votes.
That's a difference of nearly 40,000 Oregonians who apparently only voted for Governor. Does that make any sense?
We can assume that all 750,000 Republican House voters, also voted Republican for Governor. We can assume that 85,000 Democrat House voters did not vote Democrat for Governor, but Independent/minority. But the math still doesn't add up.
My gut feeling is that this 40,000 different is the result of completely fake votes given to Kotek to offset 40,000 Democrat House voters who went to Johnson for Governor.
Considering that right now the reported difference between Kotek and Drazan is only 65,000 and there appear to be 40,000 fake votes for Kotek, it's really only a 25,000 gap. And this is with an estimated 14% votes yet to be counted (which would be roughly 270,000 votes).
Check my math. I'm I that bad at math, or is there really something fishy going on??
It's certainly possible that people might just only vote Governor and nothing else. But I have a really hard time believing a full 2% of voters did that. And honestly, I can't believe anyone would do that at all. I personally didn't vote for 10 different races this year, because they were all judgeships and all 10 were unopposed. Thought it pretty lame to rubber stamp and figured that as long as they voted for themselves, they'll win anyway. But whenever there are multiple candidates, I seriously can't imagine anyone voting just governor.
Here's a look at a sample ballot for the most populous county in Oregon (Multnomah = Portland area)
https://www.multco.us/elections/sample-ballots-november-2022-general-election
Order of races is Federal (Senator, then House) and then State (governor). So 40,000 voters skipped past the first two races in the ballot to go straight to governor? Find that very hard to believe