Louisiana GOP Posts Official Caucus Results - Provisional Ballots Not Counted

The Louisiana GOP has posted the official caucus results, and the following statement:

"After the verification and counting of provisional ballots was completed late Friday evening, the results of the 2008 Louisiana Republican Caucus were deemed official.

In order to cast a ballot in the Caucus, a person must have been a registered Republican as of November 30, 2007. The Republican Party of Louisiana has worked with Registrars of Voters across the state in an effort to verify party affiliations of voters who cast provisional ballots.

Approximately two-thirds of the individuals who cast provisional ballots have been identified by their respective Registrar of Voters as registered Democrats or Independents as of the November 30 deadline. Their ballots, of course, will not be counted nor added to the totals of any district.

After verifying and counting all eligible provisional ballots, the addition of these votes yielded very few changes in the outcomes of races.

We have appreciated your patience as we have worked to ensure the accuracy of the 2008 Louisiana Republican Caucuses

If you haven't been following the saga of corruption, read about it here. I assumed the LA GOP wouldn't count any of the 500+ provisional ballots, so I saved the "unofficial results" PDF files to compare them with the newly released "official" results:

1D - No Change
2D - No Change
3D - No Change
4D - No Change

5D - No Change (70 new votes appear in the official results, but they do not appear to have counted toward any delegates, merely acknowledged)

6D - No Change
7D - No Change (124 "p" - assumed provisional - votes acknowledged in unofficial results missing from official)

1A - No Change
5A - No Change
6A - No Change
7A - No Change (124 provisional votes acknowledged in unofficial results again acknowledged in official, but they do not appear to have counted toward any delegates)

Unofficial Results PDFs: LA_UnOfficial.zip
Official Results PDFs: LA_Official.zip