Will the margin of victory in the 2024 POTUS election in Georgia be greater than in 2020 (0.3%)?
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The party elected is not relevant to the resolution of this question.

Last election, CNN reported 49.5% - 49.2%:

https://www.cnn.com/election/2020/results/state/georgia

I will use similar criteria for this market, and will not vote in it.

If CNN is reporting within 0.1% of this number, I will look at the actual voter numbers to determine which margin was greater.

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The exact margin was 0.23558%, does this resolve based on that or 0.30000%?

Really interesting market to measure the uncertainty for Georgia's margin. Based off the 93% value, the standard deviation is ~3%

@ChinmayTheMathGuy Good question. If CNN reports a 0.3% margin again, I will go to a higher resolution to make the determination. Beyond that, I will go with their rounder numbers to keep it simple.

As for current numbers on this market, we don't have close to enough trades to draw any conclusions yet.

@WalterMartin But there's also a scenario where the margin is 0.2% but going to more decimal places shows its greater than 0.23558%

2020 Election GA:

49.5% - 49.2% = 0.3%

49.47% - 49.24% = 0.23%

Suppose

2024 Election GA:

49.5% - 49.3% = 0.2%

49.54% - 49.26% = 0.28%

The MOV was greater than 2020, but also 0.2% by your criteria.

@ChinmayTheMathGuy Fair enough. If it's within 0.1% of 0.3% (i.e. 0.2% or 0.4%) I'll also do this finer-grained check. Same for the other similar markets I've created. When I need to update the linked questions in each of these due to adding another state, I'll also clarify this in the descriptions for each.