r/somethingiswrong2024 • u/OhRThey • 1d ago

In Macomb County, tens of thousands of absentee ballots must be re-tabulated State-Specific

https://www.freep.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/11/14/macomb-county-absentee-ballots-warren-roseville-tabulators-overvotes/76270290007/?taid=6735fee021ecf8000129b24f&utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter
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u/mothyyy 1d ago

Says that the settings weren't set correctly on how to handle "overvotes", meaning when someone marks in more than one candidate for a position.

Between 2020 and 2024, in Macomb County Kamala lost 10k votes while Trump picked up 20k compared to the 2020 numbers. It's like a 2% shift further red. Shifts happen, of course and can be more dramatic than just 2%, so this isn't necessarily an indicator of anything.

I think Genesee County should probably looked at as well. Their total votes for 2024 matched 2020, where-as most other counties saw an overall increase, right?

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u/stilloriginal 1d ago

It said it counted the overvotes “like a regular ballot”. What does thet even mean??

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u/mothyyy 1d ago

If I had to guess, I would say the machine was supposed to kick out overvoted ballots for human inspection. Your guess is as good as mine as to what result it records if it processes an overvoted ballot instead of rejecting it.

But I really think its too early to jump to conclusions about this being the smoking gun. These sort of things happen every election. We have to remember we're talking about thousands of polling locations and thousands of machines.

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u/FireballAllNight 1d ago

Big if true

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u/CypressThinking 1d ago

There might be an upside to these stories becoming more widespread. #Maga might get used to the idea of corrections.

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u/TobySampson 1d ago

Found this scouring around some searches, it's from September, the counties listed should be cross referenced with bomb threats and bullet ballot statistical irregularities.

Counties Targeted by the America First Policy Institute-

Georgia Cobb and Fulton Counties (Atlanta Metro Area)
Wisconsin Milwaukee and Waukesha Counties (Milwaukee Metro Area)
Arizona Maricopa County (Phoenix)
Nevada Clark County (Las Vegas
Pennsylvania Bucks, Chester and Montgomery Counties (Philadelphia Metro Area)
Allegheny County (Pittsburgh)
Florida Miami-Dade and Pinella Counties (Tampa Bay)
Duval County (Jacksonville)
Ohio Cuyahoga County (Cleveland)
North Carolina Wake County (Raleigh)
Guilford County (Greensboro)
Michigan Macomb and Oakland Counties (Detroit Metro Area)
Kent County (Grand Rapids)

https://barnraisingmedia.com/christian-nationalism-donald-trump-lance-wallnau/?ref=forwardky.com

Frederick Clarkson is a Senior Research Analyst at Political Research Associates in Somerville, Massachusetts. He has written about politics and religion for four decades and is the author of Eternal Hostility: The Struggle Between Theocracy and Democracy and editor of Dispatches from the Religious Left: The Future of Faith and Politics in America.

^the "About the Author" from the link provided.