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Re: Google Trends Electionland

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Post by jachee »

davidw wrote: post #40
AndrewOMartin wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And what if an intimidating person in your household has strong opinions about how you should mark that ballot?

There is always going to be some potential for that. "Take a picture of how you voted or I'll beat you" would work fine even with polling places, although it'd be a little trickier. The system saves a ton of money and time, and we have record numbers of voters in Oregon this year.

Taking photos of your ballot is actually illegal in my state. (MS) Presumably for this very reason.

Re: Google Trends Electionland

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Post by idm »

nhebb wrote: post #42
idm wrote: post #27

Sortof OT: I was also interested in election trends. While Google is focusing on real-time search trends regarding voting, I looked at meme trends leading up to the election. There are interesting trends in the amount of attention different candidate memes received over time. It will be interesting to see whether the attention received by candidates is translated into votes, today. Here's the working paper: http://ia…

They missed out on not including Reddit in the social networks. Reddit seemed like meme-central this election for Sanders and Trump.

A good portion of reddit's memes are hosted on imgur, which was included in the dataset, so there's that.

Re: Google Trends Electionland

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Post by ythl »

knz wrote: post #46
ryanSrich wrote: post #22

On days like this I'm glad I live in Oregon. Honestly it's the only sane and responsible way to vote.

It's not an either or scenario. Other countries manage to have voting in person without election day shenanigans like long lines to vote.

Are these other countries comparable to the US in terms of scale and population?

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Post by jrowley »

knz wrote: post #46
ryanSrich wrote: post #22

On days like this I'm glad I live in Oregon. Honestly it's the only sane and responsible way to vote.

It's not an either or scenario. Other countries manage to have voting in person without election day shenanigans like long lines to vote.

I just voted in Berkeley, ca - 5 min walk from my house and no one in line at 8:10am. So the problem of long lines isn't universal.

Re: Google Trends Electionland

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Post by davidw »

jachee wrote: post #51
davidw wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There is always going to be some potential for that. "Take a picture of how you voted or I'll beat you" would work fine even with polling places, although it'd be a little trickier. The system saves a ton of money and time, and we have record numbers of voters in Oregon this year.

Taking photos of your ballot is actually illegal in my state. (MS) Presumably for this very reason.

Sure, but if the ballot booth provides real privacy... it's not hard to do. It's also a common method of proving you voted a certain way in order to sell your vote.

Or hey, you can just peer over their shoulder:

https://twitter.com/Gabbienain/status/796031055715246080

Re: Google Trends Electionland

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Post by davidw »

ythl wrote: post #53
knz wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's not an either or scenario. Other countries manage to have voting in person without election day shenanigans like long lines to vote.

Are these other countries comparable to the US in terms of scale and population?

It's not the overall population that is the problem: millions of people are not voting at any one location.

Re: Google Trends Electionland

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Post by travem »

ythl wrote: post #53
knz wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's not an either or scenario. Other countries manage to have voting in person without election day shenanigans like long lines to vote.

Are these other countries comparable to the US in terms of scale and population?

Yes, of course. Long lines to vote is not a function of the size of the country, it's more likely to be a function of the number of people and the number of available polling stations in a given area. There are very many large cities around the world that can handle voting without the excessive lines seen in the US.

Re: Google Trends Electionland

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Post by jedberg »

So far all of these just look like population maps of the US, skewed by time zone.

Basically if it's a heavily populated area that is awake, then the dots are big.

Maybe as the day goes on it will level out to more interesting insights?

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