About the work

A closer look.

Tell me one place, or two numbers about the same thing that should match but do not. I verify the real thing: street-level frames, open sources, official records. Back comes a short research brief with the exact spot or source I used, what I counted, the number I trust and the number I do not, and the limit of my method. WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE. A real one: three published voter totals from one election release, same day, same region. The parliament race counted 831,691 voters. The head-of-republic race counted 831,946. The lower chamber counted 835,278. Three electorates, one release, three different totals. The proof needs no outside roll: the chamber that counted the most voters printed the lowest turnout. That gap was never rounding. It was a base question. GOOD FITS: a fact check on a figure that keeps getting repeated, a place report on what is really there, a count of something nobody has bothered to count, two published numbers that should agree and do not. If it cannot be done honestly, I say so and there is nothing to pay.