15 July 2021

You Don't Need Order Of Operations In Simple Counting

Some Maricopa hack has taken to explaining the difference in the number of votes counted in the audit differing from the number of votes certified by citing a common math puzzle that gets different answers depending on the order of operations you used.

Update: Found the quote!

Maricopa County: Why might the Cyber Ninjas’ ballot count differ from Maricopa Vote numbers?

For the same reason people might get different answers to this problem: (6 x 5) ÷ 3 + 11

If you don’t know the order of operations, you don’t know the answer.

Counting doesn't work that way.

But let's humor them and apply PEDMAS to the equation, shall we?

1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1=?

No parenthesis.

No exponents.

No division.

No multiplication.

Lots of addition.

No subtraction.

Order of operations only matters if there more than one operation.

The answer for the above is 30.  It's 30 even if you count backwards because addition can be taken in any order.

What the audit is finding isn't a problem with math.  It's finding that votes were counted and certified that don't exist.  At best they've discovered that votes have been lost or destroyed which had been previously counted.

At best.

That alone should be enough to nuke the Maricopa Board of Elections and get them fitted for orange.  Those missing votes, if they actually existed, were supposed to be saved with all the others.

Occam's Razor, however, says that the "missing" votes didn't exist except as creations of compromised software.

Buckle up, it's likely to get sporty.

3 comments:

  1. I don't understand WHY we even have voting machines that even just have the ability to "weight" votes.
    There is NOTHING good about electronic voting machines.

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  2. Electronic voting machines are okay as long as the paper ballots used in them are kept. In other words, Scantron or like. Totally electronic with no paper trail should get the people who authorized it lined up against the wall or dancing on the end of a rope.

    And now we see why the Dems have been pushing New Math so hard in the last 10 years. Because once you make math subjective rather than objective, then nothing matters at all. It's just another liberal arts.

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  3. "Buckle up, it's likely to get sporty."

    One can but hope.

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