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To: i-node who wrote (732046)11/13/2020 1:33:24 PM
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I really had to watch this again this morning to fully grasp what is happening here.

It starts with the notion the voting machines would store votes in a floating point value, such that votes may be weighted where one vote counts, e.g., 1.5 or 1.25 or 2.0 rather than 1 vote counting 1. I understand such a use case might exist but I sure can't come up with one in a legitimate voting situation in the US (given that our Constitution requires 1 person == 1 vote).

But the upshot of it is that when the machine sits in a location where people are "Republicans" (identified by willingness to vote a straight party ticket), votes are shifted away from straight party votes to the competitor, and it is done so in a manner that is linear/proportionate with the number of such partisan votes cast.

And they show that without the algorithm applied, in Wayne County Trump actually outperformed a slight amount.

THis video is worth investing the time.



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