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[deleted] t1_j3gf3xe wrote

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

“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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