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question everything

(47,479 posts)
Sat Nov 21, 2020, 01:37 PM Nov 2020

Yes, Michingan had more votes than voters.... when they included Minnesota in their counts

Was a comment on Smerconish.

And confirmed by the Indepedent

Trump lawyers mix up Michigan and Minnesota in latest court filing fail

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-election-2020/trump-election-fraud-lawsuit-michigan-minnesota-b1759424.html

Sharing the letter "M" was apparently enough to confuse the Trump campaign's legal team into using data from Minnesota in an affidavit filed in Michigan.

In the latest court filing fail for the president's campaign, paperwork purporting to show evidence of voter fraud mixed up counties between the two states .

An Atlanta lawyer working for the campaign, L Lin Wood, on Wednesday filed an expert analysis of suspiciously high turnout in Democrat-leaning areas of Michigan, according to The New York Times.

But some of the counties identified in the affidavit are in Minnesota: Monticello, Albertville, Lake Lillian, Houston, Brownsville, Runeberg, Wolf Lake, Height of Land, Detroit Lakes, Frazee and Kandiyohi.

The apparent mix-up was first discovered by conservative legal website Powerline, with litigator John H Hinderaker writing it was likely made due to the state's similar abbreviations of MI and MN.

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Yes, Michingan had more votes than voters.... when they included Minnesota in their counts (Original Post) question everything Nov 2020 OP
Incompetence or Parler Tricks? Blue Owl Nov 2020 #1
They should have added California Turbineguy Nov 2020 #2
Well, I understand that Fox News has given away the Michigan Sherman A1 Nov 2020 #3
It's understandable. After all, we're both in The Great White North, begin with "Mi" catbyte Nov 2020 #4
Someone thought MN was for MichigaN? Such brain surgeons. n/t CincyDem Nov 2020 #5
Yep. I'm from Michigan. People confuse it with Minnesota all the time. kcr Nov 2020 #6
And, Iowa, and Idaho and Ohio - ah, the flyover states question everything Nov 2020 #7
Oh, you mean the state of Ohioidowa! n/t Ms. Toad Nov 2020 #9
Two different issues, and a third state. Ms. Toad Nov 2020 #8

Sherman A1

(38,958 posts)
3. Well, I understand that Fox News has given away the Michigan
Sat Nov 21, 2020, 01:57 PM
Nov 2020

Upper Peninsula to Canada in one of their reports, perhaps those folks voted by mistake...........

catbyte

(34,384 posts)
4. It's understandable. After all, we're both in The Great White North, begin with "Mi"
Sat Nov 21, 2020, 01:58 PM
Nov 2020

and have a lot of lakes.

Idiots.

question everything

(47,479 posts)
7. And, Iowa, and Idaho and Ohio - ah, the flyover states
Sat Nov 21, 2020, 02:44 PM
Nov 2020

That for one brief shiny moment were not, when both campaigns crowded over. Well, at least in MI, WI and MN..


Ms. Toad

(34,069 posts)
8. Two different issues, and a third state.
Sat Nov 21, 2020, 02:52 PM
Nov 2020

The MI/MN mixup was in affidavits. Voter affidavits alleging fraud from MN were filed in MI. That didn't alter the nuber of MI voters.

Allegations about more voters than those registered is a different issue in a third state: Wisconsin - on Sunday there were more registered voters than votes cast on Tuesday (anyone claiming the lower number didn't update their facts). In addition, in Wisconsin voters are permitted to register and vote the same day - so votes on election day could easily surpass the number of previously registered voters.

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