Suspicious Votes? Data Should Include Correlations

Journalistic standards protect data science from ambiguity

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On Monday, November 9, Trump campaign adviser Steve Cortes claimed that Georgia’s results showed a suspicious number of Biden-only votes — that is, ballots for which voters apparently declined to vote for any down-ballot offices or propositions, ostensibly because they lacked…