That's perfectly understandable in terms of math, but I don't see WHY they'd count this way. Originally the number is just a sum, so instead of getting the sum of votes into a percentage, and then using a rounded percentage to calculate approximate votes, why not just keep using the original number when it is already there?
2nd question: is this rounding just used with regard to News reporting and only relevant there, or did they get this number from some type of output at vote counting areas?
If you're asking why the video creator did it, supposedly that's all the info that was reported in the feed.
If you're asking why the source information did it this way, well I guess either incompetence or they want to minimize available data to make hiding fraud easier.
Regarding your second question, unfortunately I'm not sure exactly who was the originator of the data and the extent it's used. The video says the data was retrieved from the new york times, so I don't know if they also have exact vote counts somewhere else or they used this stupid method for their state result reporting as well.
Presumably the actual vote counts exist somewhere... you might have to search state government/secretary of state webpages for individual states to find it though, and it's probably only updated far more slowly. I'm unaware if there's another place to find it.
That's perfectly understandable in terms of math, but I don't see WHY they'd count this way. Originally the number is just a sum, so instead of getting the sum of votes into a percentage, and then using a rounded percentage to calculate approximate votes, why not just keep using the original number when it is already there?
2nd question: is this rounding just used with regard to News reporting and only relevant there, or did they get this number from some type of output at vote counting areas?
If you're asking why the video creator did it, supposedly that's all the info that was reported in the feed.
If you're asking why the source information did it this way, well I guess either incompetence or they want to minimize available data to make hiding fraud easier.
Regarding your second question, unfortunately I'm not sure exactly who was the originator of the data and the extent it's used. The video says the data was retrieved from the new york times, so I don't know if they also have exact vote counts somewhere else or they used this stupid method for their state result reporting as well.
Presumably the actual vote counts exist somewhere... you might have to search state government/secretary of state webpages for individual states to find it though, and it's probably only updated far more slowly. I'm unaware if there's another place to find it.