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The absentee ballots moved Smith's margin from 400 to nearly 2,000 -- out of recount range.

Leeds and Vann carried Districts 1 and 2, and the in-person Absentee ballots.

Smith and Grayson carried Districts 3, 4, 7, 8, and 9. The votes were close in Districts 3 and 6.

District 5 is close enough to recount.

Districts 4, 7 and 8 have results that are significantly at variance with all the other Districts, though they are consistent with the Absentee (not in-person) ballots, with a 2 to 1 advantage for Smith.

In Districts 1, 2 and 4, Grayson significantly outpolled Smith.

There appears to be a ballot design problem, in the Grayson and Vann portion of the ballot, but its effect is not consistent in all Districts. In particular, in three out of the four ballot sets where Smith obtained landslide margins (Districts 7, 8 and the Absentee (not in-person)), the effect is absent, and the Smith and Grayson votes differ by only 2, 11, and 31 votes, resp.

Here's an interesting dilemma. According to the Cherokee election results site

So what can account for the difference? Did absentee voters care so little about the resolution removing federal oversight? Did they get the second absentee ballots, the one with the resolution too late, or not at all? Was there some other explanation?