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Green states received a larger proportion of Electoral votes compared to their actual turnout. Red states received less.

Wish I could read these maps, but I'm red-green color blind (like 8% of men). Please consider using different colors or some additional indicator to show this information.

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Wow, sorry for this! I just used default colors that were in the Google Sheets chart tool. For my own education, is there a different spectrum that would do better?

While I am not colour blind, I sympathise with those that are. All programming languages should have a library along the lines of Colors.jl [1] that allows you to simulate and, more importantly, provides functionality to give you a good set of colours and colour scales to use for your graphics.

[1]: https://github.com/JuliaGraphics/Colors.jl#simulation-of-col...

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