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[–] Zorque@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Does this include people who didn't vote? Like is this if everyone of that demographic voted, or just a demographic map of people who did vote?

I honestly think these maps and graphs and whatever should always include those who didn't vote. That's honestly the metric that is fucking up the elections the most.

Just voters id bet

[–] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 2 points 2 days ago (2 children)

It's a map of what the vote map would look like if only certain demographics' votes were counted. It doesn't matter if you don't include non-voters, it doesn't change the map.

If you mean 'Include how those people would have voted, if they had' - how would you propose to obtain that information?

[–] ech@lemm.ee 2 points 2 days ago
[–] Zorque@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

What, like some sort of voter registry or something? Or if you get non-registered voters, some kind of census or whatever?

I don't think anyone's ever done anything like that.