Yet beneath the headlines lies a more uncomfortable question: Is this actually a peace agreement, or merely an operational pause between rounds of a conflict that neither side has truly resolved?

When one candidate consumes the overwhelming majority of a precinct's electorate, the remaining vote inventory becomes increasingly important to understanding the performance of everyone else.

If Spencer Pratt truly received zero votes in a large batch while his opponents received tens of thousands, the event would be statistically extraordinary. The probability would be so small as to effectively approach zero.