Social media users are sharing election result maps awash with red as evidence races were rigged. But these maps show acreage, not population size.
on its website that’s similar to the one in the Instagram post, but users can see vote breakdowns by county. Fetterman netted more than 382,000 votes in Philadelphia County compared with Oz’s approximate 76,000, according to unofficial results as of Nov.10. In Allegheny County, where Pittsburgh is the county seat, Oz fared better with nearly 197,000 votes to Fetterman’s nearly 353,000.
Many of the red-colored counties on the map reflected significantly smaller vote counts. In McKean County, for example, Oz took about 10,000 votes to Fetterman’s roughly 4,000. In Forest County, Oz won about 1,400 votes to Fetterman’s approximately 700. In other counties, Oz received more than 100,000 votes, or tallies that reached the tens of thousands. But they were not enough to best Fetterman, who won the election with about 51% of the overall total, or about 2.68 million votes, according to unofficial results.the problem of election result maps and shared several attempts to illustrate the 2020 presidential election results"by population, not acreage.
"This is a quadrennial issue in presidential politics," Bump wrote."Every four years, we get new election results, and every four years, people start passing around state- or county-level results maps that show a massive sea of red — reflecting Republican strength in expansive, sparsely populated rural areas. New York City occupies a few pixels; Sweetwater County, Wyo., with its 44,000 people, occupies hundreds of times as much real estate.
The same appears to be true in the midterms, but the land-based maps are certainly not evidence that the election was rigged. We rate this post Pants on Fire.
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