I noticed some of the sensationalist journalists looking at the petition database and making comments about the degree of hacking occurring.
Some lazy reporters have see a screen print of the .json file which lists the countries before the UK constituencies and drawn a scurrilous conclusion that most of the voting is overseas and faked by bots.
I decided to have a look for myself.
Download the latest .json of the results.
Grep it into a CSV suitable format to drop it into Excel
Run a couple of quick sorts.
Most noticeably, the non-UK portion is under 4%. That includes other nationalities from where you'd expect to see votes. France, Spain and USA are the top 3. 227 countries in total, but after the top 10 or so no-where more than about 1000, and a rapid drop into double digit numbers.
Here's the sorted data:
And yes, I know my total is lower than the current petition, but it was the most current .json when I downloaded it.
Just 3,295,009 votes, with 124,082 (3.78%) from non-UK nationals.
In my opinion, after some fact checking.
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