se they're doing three times as many Black ones as white. But the story goes on to say that there's no demographic information on the ballots that are being rejected. And I'm thinking but isn't there at least a name? There's a name on the ballot right? A printed name. Don't you know where the ballot came from? Am I wrong about that? Because that is demographic information. It isn't too hard if you are a racist to try to guess which names belong to Black people. You wouldn't get everyone but you could get pretty close couldn't you? You know if you just picked out the obvious ones. So I'm not sure I believe that you can't tell completely who voted.

But the problems that they call out for why they were being rejected were missing a signature or missing a witness signature. Now that's pretty black and white right? There's either a signature or not. There's a witness signature or not. What would be the reason that both in 2018 and now in 2020 three times as many Black voters did not fill in one of those two things? What causes that? Do you have any idea what causes that? If I had to take a guess I would say it's correlated with educational levels and that the more educated you are the more adept you are at reading a form correctly, filling it out correctly and not making any mistakes. So it probably is just correlated with economic situation and education situation. But it does certainly raise the question that Trump has been raising that these ballots are a problem.

All right but I didn't know this. That apparently the system this year allows the voters to, they have apparently they have time, I don't know if in every case, but they would have time to fix their errors because I guess they get notified. Now if they're notified of the errors there must be some information on the ballot that tells you something about people so they can either fix it or they can go vote in person. But as you might imagine not everybody fixes it so the original problem persists even though they could have fixed it. All right so maybe that'll make a difference. We'll see.

Remember I asked you I said I couldn't understand why people were criticizing Trump for saying that doing extra testing is surfacing extra infections. And I thought to myself how could that not be true? How could you do extra testing without finding extra people? I feel like that's just obvious. And Nate Silver basically said the same thing in a tweet. He said it's not clear whether COVID cases are actually on the rise in the US or if it's because there's more testing. And I thought to myself that's the first time I've seen anybody who I would imagine is more associated with the left, I don't know if he says that about himself he may not identify with the left I don't know, but it's the first time I've hea