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Kenya’s Election Rounding Error

More or Less: Behind the Stats

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A Hundred Point Zero One %

Four of kenye's seven electoral commissioners gave a press conference to explain that they were also unhappy with the final processes in tabulating the votes. She stated that it didn't make sense of the share of the vote to add up to a hundred point zero one %. But what had actually happened is that the extra zero point zero one, which they were raising a concern over, had arisen as a result of rounding up of the percentages. And incidentally, this had happened for each and every candidate. Tere was a rounding up that thad had happened. So now, when you add it up, it comes to a handed point zero one. Ok?

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