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Kenya鈥檚 Election Rounding Error
Official figures didn鈥檛 add up - but due to rounding, not fraud.
When the official figures were announced in Kenya鈥檚 presidential election, it looked like the total percentage share of the vote for each candidate came to more than 100%. As this should not be possible, many wondered if up to 142,000 votes might be miscounted. We explore what turns out to be a simple mathematical misunderstanding of the numbers.
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More or Less: Behind the Stats
Tim Harford investigates numbers in the news: are they always reliable?