It's per county. If every citizen in the US asks for 1 cent if you wanna shake their hand you end up paying 3 million. It's still a minor fee because it's only 1 cent. Nobody expected you to want to shake everyone's hand.
Processing fee, nothing else.
Basically prevents them from collapsing because everyone demands everything all the time.
Usually it's pretty darn cheap because it's really just a "please don't ask us to send you everything we have" fee. Guess he bought a lot of data.
Benford's Law doesn't suggest exact numbers. Certain cases can deviate to some degree at some point. It just means that the more something deviates the less likely it is.
Therefor we have to discuss degrees of deviation.
Probabilities are never absolute.
Same. Benford's Law should apply to any pattern with running numbers. Someone commented in a different thread how the paper itself says it doesn't apply to elections, which doesn't make sense to me tbh.
My problem is that this doesn't seem a sufficient deviation. Looking at those graphs they are well within expected boundaries.
Especially since all three graphs seem to deviate to some degree.
Joe isn't elected until all votes have been counted which won't happen before Tuesdays because Alaska is taking a break from counting for god knows what reason.
All the numbers you can see are just news stations "calling" States.
Arizona, for example, has been called on FOX for over a day now while CNN still hasn't called it.
But "calling it" doesn't mean anything.
spez: Oh, and the military. Their votes won't get counted before the end of next week either.
Good. Regardless of this story, electronic voting machines are a massive security risk.