Comment by foobarqux
1 year ago
I don't know what to tell you except that typically the person doing the PR (in any country and field) often doesn't have a clue about the details of the process that generated the results they are reporting, despite any ceremony (in fact the ceremony is often intended to hide that fact). They usually have as much to do with producing the numbers as Jake Tapper does when he gets the numbers displayed on his teleprompter to read out.
And even if they did it wouldn't be obvious why they would think to care about whether the tallies are accurate to a tenth of a percent if the difference between candidates was much larger than that. They would think you were mental if you started a fuss about whether the intermediate result was really or 212,345 or 212,399, given that the main point was to declare a clear winner.
It's not a PR person reading the numbers. It's the President of the CNE!
Who presumably is more of a politician (and therefore PR person) than an analyst (even if they were an analyst some time in the past).
I can guarantee Jensen Huang is not vetting each number he repeats, even if he was a skilled engineer in the past.
I have no idea what you're talking about here. The numbers we're talking about were read aloud by the president of the Maduro-controlled Venezuelan election authority.