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29 Jun, 5 tweets, 2 min read
Fill out all the ranks when you vote! Even if you don't like your 5th choice. People who didn't fill out all five because they didn't "like" a candidate will lose their (unless they voted the 2 finalists). I suspect most Wiley voters would go for Garcia over Adams.
If you don't like Adams but voted for Paperboy Love Prince instead of Garcia as your 5th choice (presuming you didn't put Adams one through four), it's on you!
(Also, the stat nerd me loves this single elimination runoff system!) web.enrboenyc.us/rcv/index.html
How were _three_ candidates eliminated between Rounds 8 and 9? I thought he or she with least votes was eliminated?
I also don't get why this is "unofficial"?
Seems like Adams wins. With 368,898 votes (city of 8.3 million). By 15,908 votes. And 219,944 voters voted for neither of them. (But I bet some would have had a preference between those two and left blanks in the ranked choice.) Image

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2 Jul
Uh, say what? I'll spell it out if I have to. But I really hope I don't have to.
It's about the % increase. NYC is worse than every city but Baltimore. I might try and spell it out. It's exactly what twitter isn't good for.
This statement, in the tweet: "NYC has fought back gun violence better than other major cities." It's exactly what the chart doesn't show. They just showed a chart to make it look official. That's the crazy thing. He could have just lied without showing contradictory data.
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29 Jun
Ranked choice voting? Here's my guide.
1) Use all your choices! Doesn't matter how much you hate a candidate as long, as there's somebody you hate more.
2) There is one game to play. If you don't vote for a front-runner 1-4, still put the one you would prefer as #5.
What these preliminary results mean ,with 219,944 "inactive ballots" is that 23% of voters didn't put Adams OR Garcia in ANY rank. That's a shame if you care, since it seems to come down to those two. 16% didn't vote for the top 3?! You had 5 ranks. Don't leave blanks! ImageImage
If you only put down two votes out of five because, perhaps, "those are the only two I like," and those two don't make it to the final round, your vote becomes "inactive. It literally does not count.
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29 Jun
"Flooding the zone" is as stupid as depolicing. Policing is about what police officers do, not how many are standing around watching the chaos, ordered not to police. And Times Square should be no more important than the neighborhoods where people get shot far more routinely.
You know what I think the problem is? Some people thinks shootings just happen, in the passive voice. Cops actually know who the shooters are. By name. The problem is not with 100% accuracy. But shooters aren't hiding inside until they come out to shoot somebody all ninja Ike.
How do cops know who the shooters are? Because the guy has literally shot somebody before. The shooter is there hanging out all the time. Policing is just a job, so the cop is there only 40 hours a week. But they know each other. It's not rocket science.
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28 May
NPR's ideological cognitive dissonance on full display. Their facts support the "myth." Also, if A) Asian American aren't high earners, then B) Asian Americans are average earners or C) low earners. Which one is it? "Some are poor" is A) no duh, and B) doesn't disprove anything. Image
There's something a bit comical about some young "data analyst" at NPR "discovering" that America's arbitrary racial categorizations hide significant diversity and ethnic categories _in_ racial groups. Wow! Who could have guessed that everything isn't always about race?
"Myth: Asian Americans face less systemic racism and discrimination"

I don't think people argue this point much at all. Those inclined to do so argue that Asians face plenty of racism and succeed quite well (on average) despite it. Image
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18 May
If only we could have seen this coming.
A crazy idea, but hear me out: what if better and even more policing really _does_ improve quality-of-life, prevent violence, and save lives? Big, if true.
Imagine if there were some disease and I was like, "More doctors would be good."
And you were like, "But we know doctors don't prevent illness!"
To which I said, "Uh, sure. But doctors still improve health."
You: "I saw this video about a doctor somewhere that killed someone!"
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17 May
Good God and I hope people don't vote somebody who bribed a (corrupt) city worker and then lied about it during an investigation.
The thing about not paying bribes is it's really easy to not pay bribes. You just don't pay bribes.
And it might be worth pointing out there is a difference between a bribe and extortion. Both are bad. You might in theory pay if you're being extorted. But nobody is forced to pay a bribe. (And that includes Americans traveling abroad as well as local residents.)
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