Thousands of Trump Votes Tallied for Biden in Michigan Due to 'Software Glitch'
MI GOP Chairwoman Laura Cox reveals bombshell error in vote-counting
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Evidence has emerged from a small Michigan county that vote-counting software used in the state tallied thousands of votes for President Donald Trump onto the count for Democrat nominee Joe Biden.
Republicans revaled that a "software glitch" in Michigan incorrectly gave 6,000 votes to Biden.
County election officials caught the error and corrected it, giving President Trump a 2,000 vote lead in the county.
The glitch was noticed by local election officials in Antrim County on Wednesday.
The results had initially shown that Biden had won the county in the presidential race.
After a recount, unofficial results now show that President Trump won the historically red county by just 2,000 votes, 9&10 News reports.
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Republicans point out that in northern Antrim County, thousands of votes were also counted in error for Democratic Sen. Gary Peters instead of GOP candidate John James, according to Fox News.
Biden is ahead by 146,123 votes in Michigan with 98 percent of ballots counted, and the Associated Press and major news networks declared him the winner.
Michigan GOP Chairwoman Laura Cox said at a Friday press conference that “in Antrim County, ballots were counted for Democrats that were meant for Republicans, causing a 6,000 vote swing against our candidates.
"The county clerk came forward and said, ‘tabulating software glitched and caused a miscalculation of the votes.'”
Cox said that “since then, we have now discovered that 47 counties used this same software in the same capacity,” or more than half of Michigan’s 83 counties.
She urged those counties to “closely examine their results for similar discrepancies.”
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One Michigan county clerk caught a glitch in tabulation software so they hand counted votes and found the glitch caused 6,000 votes to go to Biden + Democrats that were meant for Trump and Republicans. 47 MI counties used this software. All must check now! pic.twitter.com/21AXyJZDZi
— Robby Starbuck (@robbystarbuck) November 6, 2020
Trump’s campaign circulated her remarks on Twitter.
The Detroit Free Press reports that Antrim County uses Dominion Voting Systems equipment.
Results are stored on computer cards at precincts, then uploaded to another computer by county election officials.
Antrim County Clerk Sheryl Guy, a Republican, told the Free Press that it’s unclear if human error or a glitch caused the error, which was discovered because a Democratic wins were incongruous with the county’s conservative leanings. A manual review confirmed the error.
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University of Michigan computer science professor J. Alex Halderman, a voting machine expert, told the Free Press that “it’s plausibly human error, but if a simple screw-up could cause these problems, that sounds like a technical design flaw.”
"It’s natural to wonder whether similar problems could have occurred in other jurisdictions that use the same machine.
"Fortunately, even if the county hadn’t noticed, this would have been caught and corrected during Michigan’s normal canvassing procedures, when they compare the results to the paper tapes from the machines,” he added.
A Michigan judge on Thursday tossed out a lawsuit from the Trump campaign to halt the counting of ballots in the Wolverine State, ruling that the vote count had already ended — in Biden’s favor.
Trump won Michigan by just 10,704 votes in 2016 against Hillary Clinton, and Biden boasted of his apparently wider lead in Wednesday remarks when the state’s race was still tighter.
“In Michigan, we lead by over 35,000 votes, and it is growing, a substantially bigger margin that President Trump won Michigan in 2016,” Biden said.
