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It's meaningless. Near Seattle there are trends reported for "voter intimidation" and "long wait times" and "voting machine problems." Those trends make no se

It's meaningless. Near Seattle there are trends reported for "voter intimidation" and "long wait times" and "voting machine problems." Those trends make no sense for a region that votes by mail.

mtgx 10y ago
How come? I would think the opposite. Voting from home absolutely applies to "voter intimidation" situations. Someone could literally be in your home with a gun to your head, making you vote the way they want you to vote. The same problem as well as vote buying applies to online voting, too. But those are not even the biggest problems with online voting, so most people tend not to focus on them.
- bowmessage 10y ago
  Voting machine problems though?! There are no voting machines here.
  - Sacho 10y ago
    If you dont have voting machines, it would make sense for you to google about them to understand what other voters are talking about, no?
    - ethanbond 10y ago
      Maybe, but that's kind of the point. A search string + location + change in occurrence tells you literally nothing.
thesimpsons1022 10y ago
i'm searching this stuff in california. not because it's happening to me but i want to hear about the horrific things happening in north carolina and elsewhere.
folksinger 10y ago
The reports of "voter intimidation" on the electionlandstrends map matches the boundary of this racial demographic map. http://www.censusscope.org/us/map_nhwhite.gif http://www.censusscope.org/us/map_nhwhite.gif Here's those two maps combined: http://i.imgur.com/eKT5s0h.png http://i.imgur.com/eKT5s0h.png
- nostromo 10y ago
  https://xkcd.com/1138/ https://xkcd.com/1138/
  - folksinger 10y ago
    Yeah but the maps I'm showing don't follow general population density so the point being made by this comic doesn't apply in this instance.
    - arcticfox 10y ago
      Unless I'm reading something on your graph incorrectly it's almost perfectly correlated with Martha Stewart Living subscribers. Looks like it applies almost exactly to me.
      - folksinger 10y ago
        Well I already did the work I'm willing to do on my end. Further research would obviously have to take in to consideration deviations from general population density, but just looking at the map, there's a lot of voter intimidation being reported in the south that clearly has nothing to do with population density. Also, there's no correlation with voter intimidation and population density for cities in the midwest. So I guess it's just my word and my graph against your word and, well, nothing else. So you better get to work!
        idanoeman 10y ago
        I'm not sure why you're pretending that it should be someone else's job to prove the point you're trying to make. You threw up a graph which looks identical to a population-density graph and are pretending you gave us evidence of your assertion.
Pigo 10y ago
I'm going to search for intimidation and see if it pops up on the map, sorry everyone
- perfectfire 10y ago
  I'm assuming you don't want to tell us where you live, so please update us on whether it showed up on the map or not.
- deleted 10y ago
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It's meaningless. Near Seattle there are trends reported for "voter intimidation" and "long wait times" and "voting machine problems." Those trends make no sense for a region that votes by mail.

mtgx 10y ago

How come? I would think the opposite. Voting from home absolutely applies to "voter intimidation" situations. Someone could literally be in your home with a gun to your head, making you vote the way they want you to vote. The same problem as well as vote buying applies to online voting, too. But those are not even the biggest problems with online voting, so most people tend not to focus on them.

bowmessage 10y ago
Voting machine problems though?! There are no voting machines here.
- Sacho 10y ago
  If you dont have voting machines, it would make sense for you to google about them to understand what other voters are talking about, no?
  - ethanbond 10y ago
    Maybe, but that's kind of the point. A search string + location + change in occurrence tells you literally nothing.

thesimpsons1022 10y ago

i'm searching this stuff in california. not because it's happening to me but i want to hear about the horrific things happening in north carolina and elsewhere.

folksinger 10y ago

The reports of "voter intimidation" on the electionlandstrends map matches the boundary of this racial demographic map. http://www.censusscope.org/us/map_nhwhite.gif http://www.censusscope.org/us/map_nhwhite.gif Here's those two maps combined: http://i.imgur.com/eKT5s0h.png http://i.imgur.com/eKT5s0h.png

nostromo 10y ago
https://xkcd.com/1138/ https://xkcd.com/1138/
- folksinger 10y ago
  Yeah but the maps I'm showing don't follow general population density so the point being made by this comic doesn't apply in this instance.
  - arcticfox 10y ago
    Unless I'm reading something on your graph incorrectly it's almost perfectly correlated with Martha Stewart Living subscribers. Looks like it applies almost exactly to me.
    - folksinger 10y ago
      Well I already did the work I'm willing to do on my end. Further research would obviously have to take in to consideration deviations from general population density, but just looking at the map, there's a lot of voter intimidation being reported in the south that clearly has nothing to do with population density. Also, there's no correlation with voter intimidation and population density for cities in the midwest. So I guess it's just my word and my graph against your word and, well, nothing else. So you better get to work!
      - idanoeman 10y ago
        I'm not sure why you're pretending that it should be someone else's job to prove the point you're trying to make. You threw up a graph which looks identical to a population-density graph and are pretending you gave us evidence of your assertion.

Pigo 10y ago

I'm going to search for intimidation and see if it pops up on the map, sorry everyone

perfectfire 10y ago
I'm assuming you don't want to tell us where you live, so please update us on whether it showed up on the map or not.
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