Monday, May 10, 2021

A Data Point

The Gateway Pundit site, which hasn’t always been accurate, claims voting data reported by the Census Bureau suggests fewer votes cast than were reported at the time. The discrepancy is roughly four million fewer votes claimed by census respondents than the total official vote count last November. 

Obviously a discrepancy if it exists can occur for more than one reason. For example, the observed difference could be the result of fraudulently ‘manufactured’ ballots as GP implies, or evidence of a census undercount, or some combination of the two. In truth it may be both, some fraud and some pandemic-induced undercount.

GP cites evidence that the Census, if it misses, normally overestimates the number of votes cast. It will be interesting to see if media outlets with a more cautious approach pick up this discrepancy story and run with it.