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Suspicious data pattern in recent Venezuelan election
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#32Coming from a family that lived in soviet russia (and still partly is), this reminds me of Putin’s 85% approval rating.
But if you ask anybody in private, nobody voted for him…
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#33This is a bit of an aside, but as a geopolitical news junkie, what I keep searching on Google News is: Venezuela election Lula
How his government reacts is going to be a major factor. Given Lula's past dedication to Chavezism, his post-election reaction has made me hopeful for change in Venezuela.
What is directly related to TFA is that both the USA and Brazil want to see the voting data.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/biden-lula-discuss-ve...
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#34God, I love mathematicians!
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#37To play the devil's advocate: It's possible that the person making the announcement was only given the rounded percentages and the total number of votes, and then "created" the number of votes per candidate to fit to the format of the announcement. That would be sloppy, but not malicious.
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Citation needed
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#40Here's this re-explained with a simpler example. Imagine you have 1,000 votes. You want to show that your political party got 60% of the vote, so, you claim: My party: 600 votes Opposition: 300 votes Other: 100 votes Presto, we got a good breakdown. The people will buy it.... It makes sense that 600 is exactly 60% of 1,000, because this was an artificial example. But in the real world, we don't get 1,000 votes. We ge…
What's wrong with announcing results with rounded percentages?!