Yes, and Orange is getting shut down in Michigan.
Mishaps in Michigan spur Trump allies to spread misleading election claims
In the closely watched battleground state of Michigan, election officials are under the microscope, with isolated mistakes or missteps serving as fodder for election deniers to lay the groundwork for widespread doubt of election results.
Several incidents this week – ranging from an isolated case of an illegal ballot cast to human errors from the secretary of state’s office that have since been corrected – have shown how conspiracy theorists have been unrelenting in their attempts to suggest something far more sinister is underway.
“For those of us who run elections, it’s a stressful time anyway and we really worry about this situation and these kinds of stories spiraling out of control,” Washtenaw County clerk Lawrence Kestenbaum, a Democrat, said. “Psychologically, having people impugning the process and so forth is stressful.”
Despite extensive efforts at transparency and attempts to swiftly correct the record for the public in Michigan, the incidents have already been amplified online to suggest systemic cheating and fraud in the election, making it difficult to reel in original misleading claims.
Although Michigan has had a smooth and strong start to its statewide early in-person voting this week, the state also faced several incidents that point to the ease with which small cases can be amplified on social media to suggest otherwise.
On Wednesday morning, confusion over the number of ballots cast in the state was sparked because of a formatting error that has since been corrected, with no extra votes counted, according to the Michigan secretary of state’s office.
Some of the confusion appears to have originated from a
post on X by Matthew DePerno, one of the more high-profile election deniers in Michigan. A former GOP nominee for attorney general in Michigan, DePerno was
charged last year in connection with efforts in 2020 to illegally access and tamper with voting machines in hopes of proving that the election was stolen from Donald Trump. DePerno has pleaded not guilty in the voting machines case.
DePerno’s post, which has been viewed more than six million times, said his review of Michigan’s Qualified Voter File — a voter records database that tracks ballot submissions — showed one voter ID had recorded a vote dozens of times at various addresses. DePerno added that the data in the spreadsheet showed over 160,000 excess ballots cast.
The Michigan secretary of state’s office attributed the confusion to a “formatting error” in the spreadsheet that it says has been corrected, which inadvertently appeared to show the same vote attributed to former addresses associated with an individual.
“Each of these voters only had one vote recorded for this election. This error in the data export process has been corrected and these erroneous extra lines no longer appear on the report,” the statement said.
Republican National Committee co-chair Lara Trump also attempted to clear up the allegations in a
post on X, saying “it was a glitch in the system - these duplicates were not and WILL NOT BE COUNTED.” Her acknowledgement that this was a glitch, and not indicative of widespread fraud, backed up the explanations from Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, a Democrat.
When asked about the clarifications from Trump and the secretary of state’s office, DePerno told CNN: “If you believe this is an export issue then you are a moron.”
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matthew deperno hey? these people who are blowing their fraud whistles everywhere outside of a courtroom and screeching about a stolen election always seem to be the ones getting caught up in it illegal election schemes. how strange.
for what it's worth the people who voted didn't actually have their votes counted multiple times and they did not try to vote multiple times or they would end up getting charged for that alongside of the tiny microscopic fraction of other people who try to commit voter fraud every other election. it was a formatting error that was promptly corrected, and this is a nothing burger. one of the many dozens i expect to see over the next few months.
they are feeding you more bullshit, likely to get you all fired up so that they can use you as canon fodder to try to do their bidding after they try to steal another free and fair election, much like they did the last time around when they lied to your faces and got you all riled up and believing in stolen election fantasies and election fraud fairies and shit and then they sent you to jail and then pardoned the guy who stole your build the wall money instead. they but they are going to try to amplify this by a hundred and hope that it will lead to violence.
they know that their shit sandwiches they continue to sell you contain nothing but shit. but that's not going to stop them from feeding you shit sandwiches.
