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Graph Shows Fraud in Russian Elections

Posted by Zonk on from the little-to-the-left dept.

gaika writes "A graph in the best traditions of Edward Tufte shows how the voting was rigged in Russian parliament elections. Initially some regions were showing higher than 100% attendance, but later on everything was corrected, or way too much corrected, as the correlation between winning party's vote and attendance now stands at 90%. I guess the people who have rigged the vote have never heard about Correlation Cofficient."

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  1. Whoopsie! by mctk · · Score: 4, Funny

    "I guess the people who have rigged the vote have never heard about Correlation Cofficient."

    And apparently neither has the person who wrote the summary.

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    Paul Grosfield - the quicker picker upper.
    1. Re:Whoopsie! by Minwee · · Score: 4, Funny

      Yeah. Facts are meaningless. You could use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true.

  2. In soviet Russia by GWLlosa · · Score: 4, Funny

    Ballots stuff you?

  3. Re:You don't need brains to be a dictator by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    just a rampant willingness to fuck people over. Depending on the context of that statement, it could describe both our current and former leader.
  4. "rigged Elections" by Brad1138 · · Score: 4, Funny

    American Democracy is truly spreading across the globe.

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    If you could reason with religious people, there would be no religious people
  5. In the best traditions of Edward Tufte? Hardly. by djmurdoch · · Score: 4, Funny

    That graph was produced in Excel. I don't think Edward Tufte would like it.

  6. The Russians should be commended by edwardpickman · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's impressive to have better than a 100% turn out when so few vote in this country. With the help of our current administration and Diebold maybe we can do as well in the next election. Hell this is America we should shoot for 200% voting!

  7. Re:Why? by ftsf · · Score: 4, Funny

    didn't you see the futurama movie!!?!

  8. Edit Wikipedia by noz · · Score: 4, Funny

    I guess the people who have rigged the vote have never heard about Correlation Cofficient.
    Oh they have. They just edited Wikipedia first to make it sound absurd.
  9. Re:What happened to the great Russian Mathematicia by eli+pabst · · Score: 5, Funny

    A.N. Kolmogorov must be weeping. Too much Smirnov apparently.

    God, I can't tell you how long I've been waiting to use that :-]