I *really* shouldn& #39;t spend my Sunday mornings doing this but as a journalist whose job is to dig into things decided to take a look at these numbers... (v short thread)

So 840 people aged 101+. Sounds like a lot, yeah? https://twitter.com/PhillyGOP/status/1325175978641874947">https://twitter.com/PhillyGOP...

There were 13,170 centenarians in UK in 2018 according to ONS. Pennsylvania population is c12m, roughly 5 times UK& #39;s. So would expect around 2,500 people aged 101+ in PA. Is it a huge surprise that c. a third of these voted?

But & #39;lived through Civil war& #39; and & #39;born in 1800s& #39; is just & #39;wow& #39;, right?

Well no. It& #39;s is literally laid out in GOP link:

"The reason some birth dates will display as 1/1/1800 is due to confidentiality reasons"
https://data.pa.gov/Government-Efficiency-Citizen-Engagement/2020-General-Election-Mail-Ballot-Requests-Departm/mcba-yywm/data">https://data.pa.gov/Governmen...

This stuff isn& #39;t even complicated. It just depends on people sharing it without even spending a minute looking at the data supplied or asking *any* even vaguely critical questions.