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How come the percentages for Kings County are rounded perfectly 60%-40% (Original Post) passy Apr 2016 OP
Not, here. elleng Apr 2016 #1
I checked the Guardian, NYT and Politico.com passy Apr 2016 #2
On the bbc site they have up to 2 decimal places passy Apr 2016 #5
And Bronx County a perfect 70%-30% passy Apr 2016 #3
It's as if someone typed in the results they wanted. passy Apr 2016 #4
K&R passy Apr 2016 #6
The results still stand passy Apr 2016 #7
Anyone else want to chime in passy Apr 2016 #8
They're so arrogant autorank May 2016 #9
Ah, Brooklyn freedom fighter jh May 2016 #10
Check it out autorank May 2016 #11
Yup. freedom fighter jh May 2016 #12

passy

(853 posts)
5. On the bbc site they have up to 2 decimal places
Wed Apr 20, 2016, 09:40 AM
Apr 2016

Looking at Kings and Bronx where there is a 60-40 and 70-30 result respectively the actual results (number of votes) as they are now show a 19.929% difference in Kings and a 39.929% difference in Bronx.
Those two numbers look rather similar. But then again it's probably just a coincidence.
New York county looks quite close like a 2/3 1/3 split.

passy

(853 posts)
7. The results still stand
Thu Apr 21, 2016, 02:03 PM
Apr 2016

Any statistician would could tell me how it's possible that with hundreds of thousands vote the results are so similar between Kings and Bronx.
How can it show a 19.929% difference in Kings and a 39.929% difference in Bronx, I mean .929% in each county, so up to three decimal places.

autorank

(29,456 posts)
9. They're so arrogant
Wed May 11, 2016, 03:48 PM
May 2016

They don't even bother to make up a decent story.

What was it that the Pacino character said in Dog Day Afternoon - something like At least smile while you're screwing me.

There was some of this in 2008 in the Democratic Primary in NYC

Ah, HRC, she leaves her mark...

"… a review by The New York Times of the unofficial results reported on primary night found about 80 election districts among the city’s 6,106 where Mr. Obama supposedly did not receive even one vote, including cases where he ran a respectable race in a nearby district." Sam Roberts, New York Times Feb. 16, 2008

Big City Vote Counting

freedom fighter jh

(1,782 posts)
10. Ah, Brooklyn
Wed May 11, 2016, 04:13 PM
May 2016

Noplace like it.

Edit: Noplace like it except maybe the Bronx, which had similarly round numbers.

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