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The sample count for the Presidential Election just got released, revealing that Tharman Shanmugaratnam has, in the sample, 70% of the votes. Interestingly, the reason for having a sample count made public (for the first time) has been to avoid misinformation and manage expectations. An idea you might want to know is that of an 'information vacuum'—the absence of information. When there is an information vacuum, misinformation tends to spread, and this is what the sample count works against (without a sample count, misinformation could easily spread around claiming a certain candidate is on the lead). Perhaps we are also learning from elections in some other nations, such as in the U.S., where Trump had accused the elections as being 'rigged' and 'stolen' and later caused protests by his supporters. By releasing a sample count, it perhaps manages expectations of candidates and their supporters before the final outcome is released, making such outbursts less likely.

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