analyzing results from Tuesday's US elections
Publish the results/graphs please, like to see what your are doing.
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From: Matthew McCormack [mailto:mccormack at molbio.mgh.harvard.edu]
Sent: Monday, November 09, 2020 6:14 PM
To: r-help at r-project.org
Subject: Re: [R] analyzing results from Tuesday's US elections
Benford Analysis for Data Validation and Forensic Analytics
Provides tools that make it easier to validate data using Benford's Law.
https://www.rdocumentation.org/packages/benford.analysis/versions/0.1.5
Matthew
On 11/9/20 9:23 AM, Alexandra Thorn wrote:
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You can try here: https://secure-web.cisco.com/17WRivozTB0Frts23cTlTBd3SYWzVXQsLa_jDRN8 SldAl35F0SYXRMZczzIXrQFTzbfRV4YfPOVhMSwopcdTU9Sva396s3bX3-KM7-51KjSnY 0aXxlADYaHdvs4y4YXrUfk1GT2801rVL26MCEEn2E1azdQ8ECllu1roS_Z8MIj8d6kyCt UYVdOYN1i9DuWBSXPlEi-iOtrQsBp6ELRXNFw/https%3A%2F%2Fdecisiondeskhq.co m%2F I think they have what you are looking for. From their website: "Create a FREE account to access up to the minute election results and insights on all U.S. Federal elections. Decision Desk HQ & ?ptimus provide live election night coverage, race-specific results including county-level returns, and exclusive race probabilities for key battleground races." ?? Also, this article provides a little, emphasis on little, of statistical analysis of election results, but it may be a place to start. https://secure-web.cisco.com/1JA34S9tw27K78g7scwo2aGe4lPpV7HThBE81hhJ jb4Ban7fxqbnOZqx7HxfcyqKrcB5BX7oJFHhMPumrxjm6aQJ0trW1Jgk0h9s2mNhZg4T_ gTUls8y4l0KZ-AstUtw0eC0TtR9mHblU7KWid-7OO4mg0TfsxWyNpcqkA8MBuGftOEgUF 7WtakShYgmCNYJkEfQJHK5_vjwK0taJeUheVw/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theepochtimes .com%2Fstatistical-anomalies-in-biden-votes-analyses-indicate_3570518 .html%3Futm_source%3Dnewsnoe%26utm_medium%3Demail%26utm_campaign%3Dbr eaking-2020-11-08-5 Matthew On 11/8/20 11:25 PM, Bert Gunter wrote:
External Email - Use Caution NYT had interactive maps that reported votes by county. So try contacting them. Bert On Sun, Nov 8, 2020, 8:10 PM Abby Spurdle <spurdle.a at gmail.com> wrote:
such a repository already exists -- the NY Times, AP, CNN, etc. etc.
already have interactive web pages that did this I've been looking for presidential election results, by ***county***. I've found historic results, including results for 2016. However, I can't find such a dataset, for 2020. (Even though this seems like an obvious thing to publish). I suspect that the NY Times has the data, but I haven't been able to work where the data is on their website, or how to access it. More ***specific*** suggestions would be appreciated...?
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