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U.S. Election (Day?) 2024 Megathread

With apologies to our many friends and posters outside the United States... it's time for another one of these! Culture war thread rules apply, and you are permitted to openly advocate for or against an issue or candidate on the ballot (if you clearly identify which ballot, and can do so without knocking down any strawmen along the way). "Small-scale" questions and answers are also permitted if you refrain from shitposting or being otherwise insulting to others here. Please keep the spirit of the law--this is a discussion forum!--carefully in mind.

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It doesn’t make sense to look at and functions better as part of a more broad “error rate” (somewhat organic inherent noise). First of all in aggregate an error like this is typically symmetric, ie does not “bias” results. Second, on a basic level it’s like asking how many people fill out their gender wrong to what they intended? I’m imagining quite low. I honestly don’t think it’s ever happened to me at least. But if you want to ask the related question about how many people mistake one name for another, well then you’re taking about name ID, which is studied, and better treated as its own thing. Or if you look at bias towards the first name appearing on the ballot, again that is studied and is its own thing.

Edit: However I should add that a pretty close analogue is the debate about whether an online poll should or should not provide a “back” button. I don’t have any literature on hand, but some say a back button can provide greater accuracy, but IIRC most people use the back button to rethink an answer as opposed to fixing an error, although one potential trade off is that this can lead to more bias (some claim and I agree) because “motivation” to click the back button can vary, potentially/in theory, by response. But most post election polls are not this type anyways and pollsters are more worried about deliberate lies to pollsters because they are inherently biased in a statistic sense (again are plausibly non symmetric)