I am a Veteran who has the day off today because of Veterans day, so i took some time to do some analysis of the Minnesota results.
THEY STOLE MINNESOTA!!
they use something i'm calling the "2% strategy". Heres how it works:
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do not let the 3rd party votes get more than 2.1% of the total percentage of votes in minnesota. I think they gave these votes to Biden over the course of the evening.
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when that was failing, they did a "total adjustment" to all 3 candidates to keep Biden in the lead.
🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨 WATCH THIS VIDEO 🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨
video here explaining it: https://streamable.com/vd158c
raw data from the new york times: https://static01.nyt.com/elections-assets/2020/data/api/2020-11-03/race-page/minnesota/president.json
pastebin of the python code i used to calculate the numbers based off that data: https://pastebin.com/0DEyqBkW
csv file with all the data so you can use it in excel and look at it yourself: https://pastebin.com/YEHWZaZD (download and change from .txt file to a .csv file, then open it in excel)
SOMEBODY TELL THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN!!! THEY WON MINNESOTA!!!
EDIT: Good call out on the significant figures issue. Great work! However, that doesn't explain why the 3rd party count was adjusted down 23 times while the biden/trump counts were only adjusted down a handful of times each.
Also, note that the Trump/Biden percentages start at 29%-69% at the beginning of the evening, but by the end of the count have adjusted down to 45%-52%. AND YET THE 3RD PARTY PERCENTAGE NEVER DEVIATES FROM 2.1% THE ENTIRE EVENING!
EDIT2: I don't have twitter or social media or anything, so please help get this in front of the Trump campaign or anyone else who can help #stopthesteal !!
EDIT3: FOR ALL YOU PEOPLE COMPLAINING ABOUT ROUNDING ERRORS Why does the Trump and Biden percentages move throughout, but the 3rd party % stays at 2.1%??? https://i.maga.host/2Ym3Wv2.png Biden goes from a 70% lead to a 52% lead, Trump goes from a 30% deficit a 45% deficit. 3RD PARTY VOTES NEVER CHANGES FROM 2.1%
I decided to download the data to check it out. It's such bullshit the votes are stored as percentages. It's RIFE for errors and manipulation. The total actual votes per candidate need to be stored in voting tallies...
Anyway it does seem that the 3rd party was being used to manipulate votes for the main parties--but we can't exactly tell where they went. However it should be investigated how these votes were lost--is it in the software itself, or was it done manually?
Is there anyway to run the same analysis against the full Edison dataset? As I understood it, this was run on a JSON exposed on the NYT website vs the full scraped data set that anon wrote a script to pull.
I'm not sure if this even makes sense, just floating the question.
Edit: Looks like this has already been explored and I misunderstood.
Sure is. Just find the full Edison dataset
Yeah, my bad :) I overestimated the granularity of what that provided.
Probably a sign that I need to stop letting other patriots do all the heavy lifting, even if that just means informing myself better.