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irondethimpreza t1_j3gl47s wrote

This is why I made sure I voted in person. I wasn't going to give the Republicans any more opportunity than necessary to invalidate my vote.

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ScienceWasLove t1_j3gnai1 wrote

This info is in the article. 1,000,000 dem and 187,0000 rep mail in ballots.

1% of dem and 1.8% of rep mail in ballots were discarded.

Turns out republicans that mail in their ballot were 1.8 time more likely to have their ballot canceled.

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irondethimpreza t1_j3gqzmt wrote

1% of 1 million = 10,000 invalidated Dem ballots

1.8% of 187,000 = about 3,500 invalidated Rep ballots

About 3x as many Democratic ballots were invalidated, but feel free to spin this however you want. Republicans are perfectly happy to do this as long as the numbers are in their favor. To therm, the invalidated Republican votes are just collateral damage, so long as they invalidate more Democratic votes.

Edit: cant math this morning

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ScienceWasLove t1_j3gs0tr wrote

There is a reason percents exist.

It would be very prudent to use these percents, especially the 1% stat for democratic votes to prove how successful democratic messaging was on mail in ballots. Especially when compared to 1.8%.

That same 1% could be used to show that 99% of 1,000,000 mail in ballots were recorded successfully.

We could use the raw numbers as you did to suggest “no wonder, we all know democrats in the cities can’t read”.

We could use the 1.8% vs 1% to say “no wonder, we all know republicans in pennsyaltucky can’t read”.

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An honest, non biased read would be that 98+% of 1.2+ million mail ballots were recorded accurately.

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