Key Points:
5,207
The amount Trump increased his share of Detroit votes compared to 2016 results.
9,145
The total increase in Detroit votes compared to 2016.
357 out of 256,415
The number of “out-of-balance” votes across the city of Detroit compared to total votes, a variance of 0.1%.
- The vote was accurate.
- There was nowhere to stash hundreds of thousands of votes as imagined by Giuliani.
- There is absolutely no reason not to certify the results.
- Demand the Board of State Canvassers do their job.
For the first time in its history, the Michigan Board of State Canvassers will be the center of the news cycle tomorrow. The two Republican members may or may not try to exceed the powers of their office, claiming “irregularities” in the vote in Detroit. Let’s smash this claim to tiny bits right now.
The MI Department of State has already sent a Report (page 5) to the board showing that Detroit has greatly improved its percentage of balanced precincts (where the poll book count equals the number of votes). More on that in a moment. First though, there is a rather glaring fact in the report: Trump actually did better in Detroit that he did in 2016.
Percentage of Trump Votes in Detroit:
2016: 3.1%
(7,682/247,369)
2020: 5.0%
(12,889/256,514)
Trump picked up 5,207 votes.
But, crazy Republican lawyers might object, “those were washed out by a wave of corrupt Democratic votes!” No! Look at the total votes. Detroit’s turnout only increased by 9,145 votes.
Increase in Presidential Election Votes as a Percentage of 2016 Votes:
Detroit: 3.7 (9,145/247,369)
Statewide: 15.4%(738,928/4,799,284)
While turnout state wide went up significantly, Detroit barely increased. That’s a problem for Democrats, not for Trump. Even if every new vote had been cast for Biden, the increase in Detroit’s vote totals couldn’t wipe out Trump’s 10,704 vote state-wide margin of victory from 2016.
No Spanish supercomputers hidden in Germany, no Venezuelan mastermind, no secret code inserted by Antifa’s IT department can make this election result add up to a grand conspiracy.
So what are the Republican board members complaining about? They claim the number of precincts (29.1%) that aren’t balanced is a cause of great concern. But that number is much better than the results they certified in 2016:
Percentage of precincts balanced or explained:
November 2016: 41.8% (270/662)
• Presidential election margin: 10,704
November 2020: 71.9% (458/637)
• Presidential election margin: 154,187
But still, 29.1%! That sounds like a lot! No. Of those 179 precincts, most were off by between 1 and 4 votes. How many were off by more?
Percentage of Precincts with a Difference of 5 or More:
August 2020: 8.1%
(81/1,006)
November 2020: 5.7%
(36/637)
Yes, 36 precincts were off by more than 4 votes. I don’t know the actual individual discrepancies, but the city of Livonia had the worst discrepancy with 27 votes. So if we figure those 36 Detroit precincts were off by 26 votes each, and the remaining 143 unbalanced precincts were all off by 4 votes, we have 936 + 572 = 1,502 as the maximum number of votes that could have been miscounted (and likely much less). You couldn’t steal a seat on the student council with that serving as your evil plan.
The board members know all of this, of course— the Secretary of State had already told them. There is no conceivable way the Detroit results could hide massive fraud. If you’re a Michigander and you have a chance to voice your concern at tomorrow’s meeting, be sure to point this out.
Update:
Mayor Mike Duggan points out actual discrepancy in out of balance votes:
"And the total number of out-of-balance counts was 357 in a city that 250,000 votes. In other words, 99.9% was done correctly," he added.
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