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5illy_billy t1_j3gxpy0 wrote

Reply to comment by ScienceWasLove in Majority of 16k canceled Pa. mail-in ballots were from Dems by TransporterOffline

You are manipulating statistics to misrepresent the situation. 10,900 D vs. 3,500 R means three times as many dem votes were thrown out as republican. Framing it as a percentage of mail-in ballots cast is deliberately misleading.

Dems voted by mail way more than Republicans. Republican leaders know this and promoted conspiracy theories about mail-in voter fraud, discouraging conservatives from voting by mail. Then they threw out a bunch of mail ballots and whoops! who could have predicted that this would affect dems more?! That’s very convenient for republican leaders, huh.

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ScienceWasLove t1_j3h2xqj wrote

Thank you for proving my point. What a great conspiracy. 1% of democratic mail in ballots were discarded.

99% of 1,000,000 were counted correctly.

Percents matter. Proportions matter. Using percents or “3x” with out showing all the raw numbers is not good analysis.

Can you find 1 district, just 1, where the discarded ballots (republican or democrat) impacted the results for that district?

Can you find 1 district, just 1, where ALL mail-in ballots impacted the result for that district?

Most likely not, because they are a rounding error when compared to the in-person voting.

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