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[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I see, so the fishy part is that the vote counts basically correspond exactly to the nearest 0.1% for the top two candidates, whereas that's unlikely. And the odds of that happening for both candidates is a 1 in roughly (10,000^2)?

EDIT: rereading the article, I see the probability calculations at the bottom.