You actually answered my question with your question!
Michigan I think is an edge case (although there may be other similar states) that break out straight-party vote versus individual ones. Therefore the slope indicating weighting and when it kicks in is fairly pronounced in Dr. Shiva's examples.
I imagine that we could use the percentage of total registered Republicans as a proxy for this, although it wouldn't be as exact. We know that Trump had high approval ratings in the Republican party, but of course it's not 100% and certainly not uniform from county to county. However, I think we could use a "fudge" number of 90% or so and if applied uniformly we could see similar adjustments being made by the voting system. As the number of registered Republicans in a county increased, if this weighting algorithm holds true, we should see that same downward slope kick in at a certain percentage -- again, just not as perfect a line as Michigan.
You actually answered my question with your question!
Michigan I think is an edge case (although there may be other similar states) that break out straight-party vote versus individual ones. Therefore the slope indicating weighting and when it kicks in is fairly pronounced in Dr. Shiva's examples.
I imagine that we could use the percentage of total registered Republicans as a proxy for this, although it wouldn't be as exact. We know that Trump had high approval ratings in the Republican party, but of course it's not 100% and certainly not uniform from county to county. However, I think we could use a "fudge" number of 90% or so and if applied uniformly we could see similar adjustments being made by the voting system. As the number of registered Republicans in a county increased, if this weighting algorithm holds true, we should see that same downward slope kick in at a certain percentage -- again, just not as perfect a line as Michigan.