The Political Inquirer

Know much about correlation coefficients?

Here’s a graph of Vote Share by Turnout for Canada’s general election in 2006:

Here’s the same graph for Russian elections 2007:

There are better, less blatant ways of rigging elections.  It’ll be interesting to see what, if anything, comes of this news.  If these data are accurate, it’s nothing less than absolute proof.  Problem: Governments will learn from this mistake and correct their vote rigging mechanisms to randomize the correlation while still controlling the outcome.  Solutions?

All credit goes to krotty.