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Nevilledog

(51,006 posts)
Fri Nov 20, 2020, 11:25 AM Nov 2020

Here's where the "more votes than voters" shit came from



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Brad Heath
@bradheath
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Nov 20, 2020
This is the kind of garbage that's behind a lot of the viral election-fraud stuff. Some of it's simple mistakes or armchair detectives who don't know better. Some of it's worse ->

Andrew Fleischman
@ASFleischman
Replying to @ASFleischman
As this Powerline blog post shows, that expert confused Minnesota and Michigan. He was counting the population of towns in Minnesota, seeing they did not match Michigan towns, and finding fraud.

https://powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/11/do-trumps-lawyers-know-what-they-are-doing.php
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Brad Heath
@bradheath
This enormous mistake actually made its way into some of the post-election litigation trying to crown Trump the next president. Lin Wood introduced it as part of his request that Georgia be prohibited from certifying its election results.
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Here's where the "more votes than voters" shit came from (Original Post) Nevilledog Nov 2020 OP
... Nevilledog Nov 2020 #1
... Nevilledog Nov 2020 #2
They probably saw "Detroit Lakes" and assumed it was Michigan. What an asinine, boneheaded mistake. catbyte Nov 2020 #3
Most people who have lived their entire lives in NYC are PoindexterOglethorpe Nov 2020 #6
Famously. Marcuse Nov 2020 #10
So true. PoindexterOglethorpe Nov 2020 #11
That's what happens when you govern through the intertubes. MerryBlooms Nov 2020 #4
Surprised they didn't include Missouri in there dreamland Nov 2020 #5
Yeah, no kidding. At this point for all the good it's going to do them, why not include Missouri? yonder Nov 2020 #7
Michigan-Minnesota. Potato-Potahhto. Yavin4 Nov 2020 #8
This is what happens when you have the result burned in your brain without any evidence. peggysue2 Nov 2020 #9
It's an easy mistake. Happens all the time... Glorfindel Nov 2020 #12
Detroit, Oregon sadly burned to the ground in September. Thunderbeast Nov 2020 #13

catbyte

(34,335 posts)
3. They probably saw "Detroit Lakes" and assumed it was Michigan. What an asinine, boneheaded mistake.
Fri Nov 20, 2020, 11:34 AM
Nov 2020

PoindexterOglethorpe

(25,816 posts)
6. Most people who have lived their entire lives in NYC are
Fri Nov 20, 2020, 01:42 PM
Nov 2020

completely ignorant of anything at all outside the city. It's been my experience that they are incredibly parochial, typically think there is absolutely nothing anywhere else worth seeing or experiencing. Makes me crazy.

Sort of like all those ignoramuses who don't know there's a state called New Mexico.

dreamland

(964 posts)
5. Surprised they didn't include Missouri in there
Fri Nov 20, 2020, 01:11 PM
Nov 2020

Seems like someone didn't know their state abbreviations , MI, MN, MO.

yonder

(9,657 posts)
7. Yeah, no kidding. At this point for all the good it's going to do them, why not include Missouri?
Fri Nov 20, 2020, 01:45 PM
Nov 2020

Or Mississippi. Or Maine, Massachusetts and Montana?

Those clowns are out to lunch on our dime.

peggysue2

(10,823 posts)
9. This is what happens when you have the result burned in your brain without any evidence.
Fri Nov 20, 2020, 02:03 PM
Nov 2020

Plus this repeats the sloppy, shoddy, incompetent manner in which the Trump people have functioned throughout. Sidney Powell cannot pass a Tucker Carlson sniff test. The other female attorney referred to Donald Trump as a "dirtbag" 4 short years ago.

And Rudy? We've all watched the ridiculous, wild-eyed declarations of a man who clearly is not performing at any credible level.

So now we have inaccurate evidence from people who can't even check their own data. To prove widespread fraud.

It would be funny if it wasn't so dangerous. Because 47% of the public believes this shit.

Thunderbeast

(3,400 posts)
13. Detroit, Oregon sadly burned to the ground in September.
Fri Nov 20, 2020, 02:21 PM
Nov 2020

I wonder if the vote fraud involved those votes too?

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