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I'd say that's the reasoning for states and countries to begin with; the group with the bigger stick. What you're witnessing is people desiring to be outside o

I'd say that's the reasoning for states and countries to begin with; the group with the bigger stick. 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.

drekipus 5y ago
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:9647421250 https://apnews.com/article/fact-checking-afs:Content:9647421...
- arglebarglegar 5y ago
  why? the explanation is entirely reasonable and was expected beforehand
- jandrese 5y ago
  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.
- klyrs 5y ago
  > 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.
- trainsplanes 5y ago
  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.

drekipus 5y ago

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:9647421250 https://apnews.com/article/fact-checking-afs:Content:9647421...

arglebarglegar 5y ago
why? the explanation is entirely reasonable and was expected beforehand
jandrese 5y ago
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.
klyrs 5y ago
> 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.
trainsplanes 5y ago
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.