Editor's Note: Individuals certified to vote at the beginning of the Democratic convention numbered 442.

Valid ballots cast in the first round numbered 433 - a net lost of nine. In Clark, the ballots cast (42) were two more than those originally certified (40) at the beginning of the convention. In JPA, the ballots cast (66) were one more than those originally certified (65) at the beginning of the convention.

According to Lloyd Snook (electronic mail, March 4, 2002),

"...when the Credentials Committee folks were putting together the packets of ballots, they occasionally would pick up two instead of one ballot from the stack of first round ballots. I had a couple of honest folks come up to me on other rounds and tell me that they had received two second round ballots, and they gave me the duplicate ballots. Maybe some less honest folks were recipients of a duplicate ballot. All that I can say is that there is always room for human error. Our credentials assemblers worked very hard, very quickly, and with only a few mistakes. On none of the rounds was the fact that a few ballots may have been incorrectly issued determinative of the outcome."

839 out of a possible 866 [i.e. 433 x 2] valid votes were cast on the second ballot.

In the first round, no candidate reached the threshold of 50 weighted convention votes. Blake Caravati received the largest number of actual votes [188] and the highest number of weighted convention votes [44.83], followed by Waldo Jaquith [168/36.64] and Bern Ewert [139/33.53]. Alexandria Searls came in fourth [122/27.57] and David Simmons came in fifth [113/26.93].

Joan Fenton, who received 109 actual votes and 25.02 of the weighted convention votes, was dropped from the second ballot.