An audit will find that the blue states used a high quality random number generator to produce their COVID statistics.
Competing interests:
1) If I report low numbers it looks good. We are handling the pandemic well.
2) If I report high numbers we can shout about a Trump-caused disaster and get lots of federal money to help.
Decisions, decisions....
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