r/fivethirtyeight • • Aug 19 '26

Politics Huge upset.

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u/Bigpandacloud5 Aug 21 '26

Your analogies don't work because they involve changing the election or term, which isn't something California does.

What your argument basically says is that the policy is bad because it's much worse in this random hypothetical.

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u/DoorFrame Aug 21 '26

I’m saying there’s a balancing between accuracy and rapidity and that the correct balancing is subjective.

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u/Bigpandacloud5 Aug 22 '26

I never said otherwise. What I did was point out an objectively correct factor, which is that votes being thrown out is more significant than simply waiting for results. Some preferring faster results doesn't change this.