That was my evening yesterday listening to this interview by Chris Barkley of the man whose title is now "disgraced former Hugo administrator" Dave McCarty. It is a steaming pile of bullshit and I won't go through it all. Chris has published a transcript which is only marginally less likely to make your blood pressure boil.
For those who bet money on "cowardly self-censorship", you were right as for as the ineligibles goes.
I'm more interested in why the nominating stats are a complete mess and incompotence and neglect still look like the main issue. McCarty concedes that the EPH totals don't always add up but that's about it. Here is his explanation:
"The SQL query from from the data for the ballot counts in each category actually has a ******* flaw and it's and it's mistaken. It reported low across the board. So the places where they're where the places where people are are rightfully yelling, hey, there's more points in round nine than there are ballots cast in the in the thing they're right, there are more points in round nine because that's not a number that I ever had time to check in the process because at the end of the day. How many ballots are in each category? Isn't material to did we count things correctly? So I never double check? You know, because I didn't have enough assistance and you know, Joe and I are doing stuff and Joe's learning on the job while we were doing stuff."
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-cRucUihby1bhNlrviPaktjxc8E2tk4P/edit
I don't believe the specific claim about the SQL query but maybe it is true. That niether he nor other members of his team noticed or checked, I am willing to believe. If that SQL query has a "flaw" then it is unlikely to be the only one. That's a conclusion we could draw just on this statement alone but given ALL the visible issues with the data, then manifestly there are many issues.
I'd go further. I can't demonstrate that there are definitive issues in the final voting. There are oddities but not glaring errors or inconsistencies. However, given the admitted errors in the nomination stats AT THE FUNDAMENTAL LEVEL OF THE QUERIES TO THE DATABASE it is reasonable to regard ALL the voting results and statistics as untrustworthy.
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