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ScienceWasLove t1_j3gbpdz wrote

Such irresponsible headline and article

There is no ratios/percents in this article none.

If you compare the 1 million dem mail in votes to the 10k canceled dem ballots - you get 1%. Which is the same percent for the rep mail votes that were canceled. It’s proportionate.

The headline should be “1% of all mail in votes in PA canceled”.

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[deleted] t1_j3gf3xe wrote

“Democrats had 10,920 votes thrown out, about half for lacking secrecy envelopes. Republicans saw 3,503 ballots forfeited. Independents and third parties amounted to 1,731 votes that did not count in the fall election”

Cons shouldn’t do math.

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ScienceWasLove t1_j3gk2ih wrote

I did. I read the entire article. It states, eventually, that there was around 1,000,000 mail in ballots for dems, 187,000 for rep.

16,000 were discarded. 10,000 were from democrats, 3,500 from republicans.

10,000 vs 1,000,000 is 1%

3,500 vs. 187,000 is 1.8%.

I did not include the independent numbers.

It is worse. 1.8x more republicans votes were thrown out proportionally.

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The alarmist title states “a majority” of the thrown out ballots (16,000) were democrats - which is true - because more than half of the THROWN out ballots were dems.

However, this is sensationalism and does not represent a true understanding of what happened.

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