Re:In California recall election, candidate pushes baseless ...
by anigbrowl on Monday September 13, 2021 @07:55PM
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The website (which I linked to above) makes the following specific claim:
4. Statistical analyses used to detect fraud in elections held in 3rd-world nations (such as Russia, Venezuela, and Iran) have detected fraud in California resulting in Governor Gavin Newsom being reinstated as governor. The primary analytical tool used was Benford’s Law and can be readily reproduced.
Please explain to me how you can do a statistical analysis more than a day before any results have been tallied or published. Having a website ready to go if you believe there was fraud is not unreasonable, but writing up your claims before even knowing the result seems either irrational or dishonest.
Please follow the HN guidelines and stick with addressing the story, not a bunch of other stories that you may legitimately find more interesting but which have no direct bearing on this one. Also, I haven't downvoted you because I can't downvote top level comments on my own thread.
Also, you claim that '70% of voters at an LA voting center were told they had already voted', which you have repeated here several times.
I looked at the link you provided and it included no percentage information of any kind, just allegations about 4 people and some unspecified number of 'friends'. I don't understand where you are getting the 70% figure from.
Some San Fernando Valley voters think they are being wrongly prevented from casting a ballot in the upcoming gubernatorial recall election, but the county elections office said it was an equipment issue that was resolved.
At El Camino Real Charter High School in Woodland Hills, some voters say they were told the computers showed them as already having voted, even though they had not.
West Hills resident Estelle Bender, 88, said she was far from the only person who was being told incorrectly that they had already voted. In addition to friends of hers who experienced the issue and two other women outside the polling place, Bender said that inside, “the man next to me was arguing the same thing.” Bender said she filled out a provisional ballot and “left really angry.”
“I’d still like to know how I voted,” Bender said.
The Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder’s office said in a statement that there were issues with the settings on devices used to check in voters prior to voting. “After troubleshooting the issue, the equipment at the locations was replaced and voting continued,” a spokesman for the office said. The spokesman noted that provisional ballots were issued and that they are a “failsafe option” to ensure that everyone’s votes are counted. “Once the eligibility of the voter is verified, [the ballots] are processed and counted,” the statement added.
Editor’s note: This story was updated to include details about the equipment issues described by the Registrar-Recorder’s office.
4. Statistical analyses used to detect fraud in elections held in 3rd-world nations (such as Russia, Venezuela, and Iran) have detected fraud in California resulting in Governor Gavin Newsom being reinstated as governor. The primary analytical tool used was Benford’s Law and can be readily reproduced.
Please explain to me how you can do a statistical analysis more than a day before any results have been tallied or published. Having a website ready to go if you believe there was fraud is not unreasonable, but writing up your claims before even knowing the result seems either irrational or dishonest.
Please follow the HN guidelines and stick with addressing the story, not a bunch of other stories that you may legitimately find more interesting but which have no direct bearing on this one. Also, I haven't downvoted you because I can't downvote top level comments on my own thread.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Also, you claim that '70% of voters at an LA voting center were told they had already voted', which you have repeated here several times.
I looked at the link you provided and it included no percentage information of any kind, just allegations about 4 people and some unspecified number of 'friends'. I don't understand where you are getting the 70% figure from.
Some San Fernando Valley voters think they are being wrongly prevented from casting a ballot in the upcoming gubernatorial recall election, but the county elections office said it was an equipment issue that was resolved.
At El Camino Real Charter High School in Woodland Hills, some voters say they were told the computers showed them as already having voted, even though they had not.
West Hills resident Estelle Bender, 88, said she was far from the only person who was being told incorrectly that they had already voted. In addition to friends of hers who experienced the issue and two other women outside the polling place, Bender said that inside, “the man next to me was arguing the same thing.” Bender said she filled out a provisional ballot and “left really angry.”
“I’d still like to know how I voted,” Bender said.
The Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder’s office said in a statement that there were issues with the settings on devices used to check in voters prior to voting. “After troubleshooting the issue, the equipment at the locations was replaced and voting continued,” a spokesman for the office said. The spokesman noted that provisional ballots were issued and that they are a “failsafe option” to ensure that everyone’s votes are counted. “Once the eligibility of the voter is verified, [the ballots] are processed and counted,” the statement added.
Editor’s note: This story was updated to include details about the equipment issues described by the Registrar-Recorder’s office.