

The boost pushed him up past Trump, but the race in this state is still very, very tight.”įiveThirtyEight told Reuters that it is not true that Biden received all the votes in the overnight dump: “these batches were NOT 100% Biden votes behind the blue line, there is also a red line representing the thousands of votes Trump gained. 4, Maggie Koerth posted the Wisconsin graph showing the jump in Biden votes on the FiveThirtyEight live blog ( here), explaining, “Biden was down in Wisconsin before the Milwaukee absentee results came in early this morning.

Ī spokesperson for FiveThirtyEight explained to Reuters via email that the jumps were due to counties releasing large batch of results all at once.Īt 8:27 a.m. It supports this claim with a tweet of two graphs that were made by data analysis website FiveThirtyEight, which shows a jumps in the Biden vote in Wisconsin just before 6am on Nov. The Federalist article also says that there was “another mysterious all-Biden vote dump” in Wisconsin, claiming that Biden received all of the overnight vote dump, while Trump got none of those votes. Ī spokesperson for the Michigan Secretary of State told Reuters via email that what happened in Antrim was a simple error, as outlined by the Facebook post from the county. It said as a result the printed tabulator tapes from each precinct would be counted manually and revised unofficial results would be posted ( here).
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Ī later post clarified that the reason for the review was that “vote totals counted by the election software did not match the printed tabulator tapes, which official results are based upon”.

The article says that “after these strange results” election officials in Antrim county said they were investigating what they called “skewed” results.Ī release on the Antrim County Facebook page did announce that the Antrim County Clerk, Sheryl Guy, “became aware of apparently skewed results in the Unofficial Election Result tabulations” and they had since been reviewing the results ( here). Initial vote totals there showed Biden ahead of Trump by 29 points, a result that can’t possibly be accurate, as plenty of journalists noted.” The Federalist claims, “There was also something suspicious about the vote reporting in Antrim County, Michigan, where Trump beat Hillary Clinton by 30 points in 2016. The tweets showed screenshots of the change in vote tallies on the elections map by Decision Desk HQ, an election data service ( /), where Biden’s count jumped from 1,992,356 to 2,130,695 while Trump’s tally stayed at 2,200,902. Several social media users pointed out the jump in votes ( archive.is/nQzbT, archive.is/bUjJb), including President Trump ( here). The article claims that Biden received 138,339 votes overnight in Michigan, while Trump got none. At the time of writing, the Trump campaign had demanded a Wisconsin recount as well as lawsuits in Michigan and Pennsylvania to stop vote counting ( here). President Donald Trump has accused Democrats of fraud, without giving evidence, and vowed to fight states in court. The article makes several claims: in Michigan and Wisconsin, Biden got 100% of votes in big overnight vote dumps but Trump strangely got none Antrim County, Michigan, announced a suspicious recount after an apparent Democrat win in a previously Republican county gained national attention and Pennsylvania will count indisputably late mail-in ballots even if they have no postmark. The article by The Federalist ( here) has been shared thousands of times on Facebook ( here, here, here, here).
