A smart coder and Silicon Valley founder is saying this about POTUS' Dominion vote steal tweet yesterday:

"So an anonymous 4chan poster made a Python script that does bad math. It got picked up on thedonald.win and broadcast on OANN which Trump saw.

Here's what the script does: takes the number of votes rounded off when you round to the nearest .1% as estimated from the percentage and the total votes cast at that point, and sums those up over time. So, completely meaningless. (By the way, if you run it for Biden, you get even more votes "switched" from Trump to Biden and even more Biden votes "deleted")

And yet…"

a later reply same thread:

"Even a guy on thedonald.win is saying Like others on here I realised pretty quickly that it was predicated on counting rounding errors. It went surprisingly far and wide on Twitter regardless, made it to The Gateway Pundit and now presumably to OANN.

edit: People are asking for an explanation. That post was based on scraped website data from the NYT - it was just some timestamped updates of total overall votes that had come in from election night, and then the percentages of those votes for Trump and Biden rounded to one decimal place, maybe even to a third of one percent - lots of 6s and 3s. Meaning it wasn't supposed to be accurate to the exact vote numbers - it was clearly meant to drive some graphic on the web page or something.

When you're counting millions of votes, rounding to 0.1% means you're going to "lose" significant numbers in either directions. These total "stolen votes" came from this python script that was literally counting the rounding errors. Someone even reversed the script and showed just as many went from Biden to Trump if you count this way."

But that won't stop it from being repeated in the pro-Trump echo chamber by people who are itching to get their guns out."

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are we pushing a math mistake or is he failing to understand?