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title: "That op-ed making the rounds claiming that North Carolina was no…"
date: 2017-01-03
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# That op-ed making the rounds claiming that North Carolina was no…

*January 3, 2017 · Facebook*

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[http://andrewgelman.com/2017/01/02/about-that-bogus-claim-that-north-carolina-is-no-longer-a-democracy/](http://andrewgelman.com/2017/01/02/about-that-bogus-claim-that-north-carolina-is-no-longer-a-democracy/){target="_blank"}
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That op-ed making the rounds claiming that North Carolina was no longer a democracy? It was based on the Electoral Integrity Report, which gave North Korea and Cuba higher rankings than 27 states in 2014.\
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\"That 2014 report mentioned above gave North Korea a rating of 65.3 out of 100 and Cuba a rating of 65.6. Both these numbers are higher than at least 27 of the 50 U.S. states in 2016, according to the savants at the Electoral Integrity Project.\
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Political science, indeed.\"\
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Via @\[1523737329:2048:Alyssa Vance\]
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