amooeba

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   by amooeba 10y ago

   The figure that is reproduced and discussed in that lleo.me blog post was made by one of the authors of the paper that is being discussed here. It's just took us from the end of 2011 until early 2016 to actually get the whole thing pub
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   by amooeba 10y ago

   Actually there is a TON of evidence that e.g. Russian elections 2011 were heavily falsified. There are dozens (probably hundreds) reports of independent observers, plenty of videos capturing ballot stuffing, multiple cases when election pap
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   by amooeba 10y ago

   The study that is being discussed here was essentially done in the end of 2011 and early 2012, mostly triggered by the results of the 2011 legislative election (heavily discussed in LJ as well; in fact, this study itself was mostly develope
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   by amooeba 10y ago

   Well, I can give you the explanation: all of the authors are Russian.
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   by amooeba 10y ago

   (One of the authors here.) Actually the ballot counts do have some tendency to align with round numbers. We did not discuss this in the paper because we felt that this "anomaly" can easily be contested, precisely as @jcalvinowen