the_dunk_tank

Those numbers are actually very boring because it's just someone taking the estimated, rounded percentages and extrapolating using the total number of votes.

In the US plenty of states use easily hacked and tampered-with voting machines and the final results of elections still aren't known for weeks. There are no election observers and nobody is using a paper trsio to audit the results in front of a multi-party (lmao) delegation. Voters themselves are routinely prevented from actually casting their vote due to the lack of an accessible national voter ID system, last-minute polling station location changes and closures, and understaffing/underresourcing that not coincidentally hits opposition strongholds preferentially. On top of this, the incumbant members of the only two relevant electoral parties, both imperialist, usually get to more important R less redraw their own districts to ensure wins by picking their voters.

And yet when a country with a much more verifiable system releases some roundabout stats or takes a bit less than a week to produce a full tally we are meant to believe the (usually evidenceless) narratives of absurd Imperialist NGOs, neoliberal reactionary opposition candidates that say these things every time and before voting has even begun, and Reddit-liberals that know less than we forget in a week?

I love little details that reveal sneaky behavior but so far it has been so booooring.