> maybe for example poorer people prefer the older machines because they’re more familiar while wealthier people prefer newer machines because it matches their iPhone
The machines look the same to the voter and we can't choose which machine to vote on. Each citizen is assigned an electoral zone and a section within that zone. One voting machine captures the votes of every section. In my neighborhood, for example, the voting took place at a school and every classroom had a different voting machine, one for each section.
It'd be extremely suspicious if it turned out that the people voting one room away from me showed statistically significant differences from the other sections.
> Did you look at whether voting on newer models showed a higher preference for Bolsonaro than the national average?
Looks like Bolsonaro wins if only 2020 models are evaluated.
> What if Bolsonaro had won and someone claimed that the newer machines were built while he was in office so they were clearly programmed to favor him? Would you accept that narrative based purely on a correlation in data?
Clearly we'd be having the same election denialism problems we're having now...
The machines look the same to the voter and we can't choose which machine to vote on. Each citizen is assigned an electoral zone and a section within that zone. One voting machine captures the votes of every section. In my neighborhood, for example, the voting took place at a school and every classroom had a different voting machine, one for each section.
It'd be extremely suspicious if it turned out that the people voting one room away from me showed statistically significant differences from the other sections.
> Did you look at whether voting on newer models showed a higher preference for Bolsonaro than the national average?
Looks like Bolsonaro wins if only 2020 models are evaluated.
> What if Bolsonaro had won and someone claimed that the newer machines were built while he was in office so they were clearly programmed to favor him? Would you accept that narrative based purely on a correlation in data?
Clearly we'd be having the same election denialism problems we're having now...