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The drama in trying to convert election PDFs to Spreadsheets

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Re: The drama in trying to convert election PDFs to Spreadsheets

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Elupee 75, To be frank, you did a great job and i am proud of someone from my country pulling this off, but the bitter truth is President Elect Bola Ahmed Tinibu won this election. Peter Obi's youth support is predominantly in the south, and Christian majority parts of the country, he clearly lack support in the Muslim north, where I am from. I voted for Kwankwaso though.

Can you expand on " he clearly lack support". Bonus points for facts over opinions.

Re: The drama in trying to convert election PDFs to Spreadsheets

#43

The votes surprise me... In many regions one party gets 90+% of the vote. Assuming the numbers are correct, then it suggests that most people are easily swayed by their local peers. Is that common in say the USA?

Exactly! and this mostly happened in the regions where the OP's preferred candidate won. This is clear scam.

Re: The drama in trying to convert election PDFs to Spreadsheets

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post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I meant heroin trafficking

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Why not debunk everything I just wrote instead of attacking me personally?

Google is your friend and you can verify everything I said about:

Tinubu's drug trafficking indictment: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-61732548

Re: The drama in trying to convert election PDFs to Spreadsheets

#46
post #25

Elupee 75, To be frank, you did a great job and i am proud of someone from my country pulling this off, but the bitter truth is President Elect Bola Ahmed Tinibu won this election. Peter Obi's youth support is predominantly in the south, and Christian majority parts of the country, he clearly lack support in the Muslim north, where I am from. I voted for Kwankwaso though.

Can you expand on " he clearly lack support". Bonus points for facts over opinions.

Clearly means even his Vice Presidential Candidate could not win his own polling unit, polling unit, not ward, not Local Government, not State.

https://punchng.com/nigeriaelections2023-datti-loses-polling...

Re: The drama in trying to convert election PDFs to Spreadsheets

#47
post #27

Pdf is a very unfortunate format. It is proprietary, it is paper-oriented, its almost single goal is to keep precise printing layout. But for the last 30 years world didn't come up with anything that could compete.

PDF isn't the actual problem in this particular case. The documents here are photographs taken at different camera angles, embedded in PDFs.

Re: The drama in trying to convert election PDFs to Spreadsheets

#48

So the bug where the first voting sheet shown to a user was from the same 10% of the photos turned out to be a feature, serving as a CAPTCHA of sorts to weed out the bad actors from the good. If memory serves, some CAPTCHA techniques include showing two numbers to transcribe, where one’s value is already known. If that number is transcribed incorrectly, then the other number’s result isn’t used, and the CAPTCHA fails…

Can you explain that again differently? I didn’t understand that captcha point. It feels important though.

I think they're referring to the old reCAPTCHA v1 approach.

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReCAPTCHA:

> The original iteration of the service was a mass collaboration platform designed for the digitization of books, particularly those that were too illegible to be scanned by computers. The verification prompts utilized pairs of words from scanned pages, with one known word used as a control for verification, and the second used to crowdsource the reading of an uncertain word.

Re: The drama in trying to convert election PDFs to Spreadsheets

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post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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Why not debunk everything I just wrote instead of attacking me personally? Google is your friend and you can verify everything I said about: Tinubu's drug trafficking indictment: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-61732548

Also, this is ridiculous

> he became an "instant millionaire" while working as an auditor at Deloitte and Touche.

Re: The drama in trying to convert election PDFs to Spreadsheets

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post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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Why not debunk everything I just wrote instead of attacking me personally? Google is your friend and you can verify everything I said about: Tinubu's drug trafficking indictment: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-61732548

churchill I am not attacking you, I am just drawing your attention to bring solid evidence. the link you provided, I couldn't find where the article states that Tinibu is accused of Drug trafficking or Shettima Terrorism.
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