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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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(4) Ann Harris Bennett, the Tax Assessor for Harris County, TX, apparently has not gone to work since 2020. She is "in charge of voter registration and tax collection."

A woman with the middle name Harris, in Harris County, in an election year with a major candidate named Harris...

What.

Sometimes unsophisticated random number generators can get stuck on a number. Usually you try to detect those cases and jump out of them.

But yes, the simulation is showing.

unsophisticated random number generators

Do linear congruential generators count as unsophisticated? RANDU was particularly infamous for being able to see the periodicity. Apparently one of the hyperplanes is along the Harris dimension. You would think they would use some sort of elliptic curves over Galois fields for simulating the election. Seems more apt.