Comment by Adodie on 27/01/2021 at 06:24 UTC*

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View submission: Was the 2020 Election stolen?

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That's 20x STD from the mean. Pretty improbable.

If I'm understanding you correctly (e.g., if you mean "down ballot misaligned votes" as being ballots where a voter voted for Biden but a Republican down ballot, or visa versa), this really isn't odd whatsoever. There's lots of cases where a Congressional/Senate candidate might just be extremely well suited to their district which causes lots of divergences down ballot.

Take Joe Manchin. He won his Senate race by 24% in 2012 while Obama lost the state by 27 points. But nobody would (or should) take that as evidence of fraud.

Or look at Dem Represenative Henry Cuellar -- he crushed it in the Rio Grande while Biden collapsed.

Of course, split-ticket voting is becoming less common[1], but it certainly still is something that happens

1: https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/there-wasnt-that-much-split-ticket-voting-in-2020/

(Edited to fix a couple spelling errors)

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