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Bernardo de La Paz

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3. Example whereof I speak, obvious, but for analysis
Mon Oct 30, 2023, 02:57 PM
Oct 2023


(Even if we for the moment treat the given data as fact, ...) The error that is completely ignored and glossed over is that if you truly implemented the premise, the outcome would be very different from the map. If voting were one single day in person only then almost all mailing in ballots would vote in person and vote the same way they would otherwise. The false premise is that large numbers of people would hold to "mail-in or nothing".

But of course such bogosity in the structure of the argument completely demolishes any trust in the data that might have been briefly entertained.

Naturally, we dismiss the whole thing pretty much at the beginning when we read the contrafactual characterization "Marxist Criminals".

However, that kind of argument (map) is frequently just accepted and nodded at.

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