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2016 Postmortem
Showing Original Post only (View all)Ahead of recount, Wisconsin has already wiped out 5,000 imaginary Donald Trump votes [View all]
This is going to get ugly, esp since the SCOTUS is 4-4.
http://www.palmerreport.com/news/ahead-of-recount-wisconsin-has-already-wiped-out-5000-phony-votes-for-donald-trump/234/
Earlier today we reported that three precincts in the Wisconsin county of Outagamie had revised their vote totals downward for Donald Trump by more than a thousand votes combined, with local officials insisting to their local ABC News affiliate that it was a mere arithmetic error. But as more revisions come in throughout the state, a total of nearly five thousand Trump votes in Wisconsin have now been taken off the official board because they apparently never existed to begin with.
At the end of election night the New York Times reported that Donald Trump had won the state of Wisconsin with a total of 1,409,467 votes, giving him a winning margin of 27,257 votes over Hillary Clintons total of 1,382,210. These numbers were based on what the individual counties and precincts were reporting that night. But now seventeen days later, based on various Wisconsin precincts revising their own totals, Dave Wasserman of the respected Cook Political Report has updated the totals. Donald Trump now has 1,404,536 total votes in Wisconsin, while Hillary Clinton now has 1,382,011 total votes.
Two things immediately jump out, as first spotted by music critic Dave Greenwald. The first is that, even ahead of the forthcoming recount in Wisconsin, Donald Trumps lead has already shrunk to just 22,525 votes. That means 18% of his lead has already vanished, based on precincts catching some of their own incorrect numbers, and internet gawkers catching others. But the second thing that jumps out is that the revisions have served to erase thousands of votes from Trump, while affirming that Clintons vote total was essentially correct to begin with.
At the end of election night the New York Times reported that Donald Trump had won the state of Wisconsin with a total of 1,409,467 votes, giving him a winning margin of 27,257 votes over Hillary Clintons total of 1,382,210. These numbers were based on what the individual counties and precincts were reporting that night. But now seventeen days later, based on various Wisconsin precincts revising their own totals, Dave Wasserman of the respected Cook Political Report has updated the totals. Donald Trump now has 1,404,536 total votes in Wisconsin, while Hillary Clinton now has 1,382,011 total votes.
Two things immediately jump out, as first spotted by music critic Dave Greenwald. The first is that, even ahead of the forthcoming recount in Wisconsin, Donald Trumps lead has already shrunk to just 22,525 votes. That means 18% of his lead has already vanished, based on precincts catching some of their own incorrect numbers, and internet gawkers catching others. But the second thing that jumps out is that the revisions have served to erase thousands of votes from Trump, while affirming that Clintons vote total was essentially correct to begin with.
Some have questioned the credibility of Palmer Report, so please note the data was provided by respected and non-partisan Cook Political Report
Link to the data (see Wisconsin at the bottom of the 'Swing State' list)-
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/133Eb4qQmOxNvtesw2hdVns073R68EZx4SfCnP4IGQf8/htmlview?sle=true#gid=19
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Ahead of recount, Wisconsin has already wiped out 5,000 imaginary Donald Trump votes [View all]
Snarkoleptic
Nov 2016
OP
Exactly!! It was mentioned somewhere else how we are blatently ignoring this
AgadorSparticus
Nov 2016
#7
Here are some people who like him and info he posts about himself - sounds good to me
womanofthehills
Nov 2016
#10
LOL! Gosh, look who's here trying to dissuade people from doing a recount! What a surprise.
Squinch
Nov 2016
#90
Sure you aren't. That's why you go into every thread and try to dissuade people from supporting
Squinch
Nov 2016
#97
Sure you haven't tried to dissuade anyone. Except for all the times in every thread on the subject
Squinch
Nov 2016
#101
You are so insistent, and so ever present in all these threads, dissuading people from
Squinch
Nov 2016
#104
Lol! Tell us again how we shouldn't support the recounts, though you don't really care
Squinch
Nov 2016
#107
So why are the Party leaders remaining silent and not pursuing recounts (until Stein prevailed?)
Texin
Nov 2016
#53
It looks like some of the overvotes observed earlier had been added to Trump's totals
ucrdem
Nov 2016
#11
5K before beginning is extraordinary. 5 will get you 10 there are thousands more.
anamandujano
Nov 2016
#78
Remember, Trump supporters have guns and have threatened to use them if they don't win.
alfredo
Nov 2016
#62
So as a journo, your skill set may be employed by backing up your claims.
Snarkoleptic
Nov 2016
#111