To add, I'm not American, but if I saw the same graph spikes in my election I'd probably do the same, regardless of candidates.
https://apnews.com/article/fact-checking-afs:Content:9647421...
> But Wisconsin law requires that the results of those absentee votes be reported all at once, Wisconsin Elections Commission Administrator Meagan Wolfe explained Wednesday.
If that graph didn't have a big spike for Milwaukee's absentee ballots, it would be a sign of something nefarious.
That the behavior that FiveThirtyEight themselves said to expect actually happened? The Republican state legislatures engineered it to happen this way and then acted with mock surprise when their system functioned as expected.
The Republican base was taken for a ride and they didn't even realize it.
Re:Big Brothers Has Privatized
by trainsplanes on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @02:02AM
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You can look at the charts and there are spikes for Trump as well depending on area.
Urban cores vote overwhelmingly democrat and it takes longer to tally those votes than podunk villages. Somehow, in 2020, people thought this was a controversy.
Most of the comments here read like the worst of Facebook and /pol/ "experts" came together. Jesus.
Re:Big Brothers Has Privatized
by arglebarglegar on Tuesday September 07, 2021 @08:40PM
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why? the explanation is entirely reasonable and was expected beforehand
What you're witnessing is people desiring to be outside of what is acceptable to those inside. The basis of that whole Jan6 debacle was that they felt the state (is: vote counting) did them wrong, and so they don't want to be in that group.
One group, state, country, splits into many others, where each now feel protected better by their in-group. It's a common thread throughout history.