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Lets re-visit beautifulā¦but lightly populatedā¦.Antrim County, Michigan. County seat is Bellaire, with itās population of about 1,100.
If you recall it was much in the news in some circles recently. Dominion voting machines, cheating, stolen election, vote fraud, etc. etc.
In fact, we had a cohort of critics of Antrimās ability to hold a fair election on this very venue. Some may wish to raise their hand. Judging by their posting history, those skeptics were vehement Don Trump supporters.
And then, the Secretary of Stateās office did an audit of Antrim and found no fraud. And then the Michigan GOP led Senateās Oversight Committee investigated Antrim countyā¦..and found no fraud. In the end, as it was the evening of November 3rd, Don Trump won Antrim County. Handily. Which no one was surprised by. Itās rural Michigan, it is GOP country. Has been for a long long time.
Regrettably, partisan critics made the good poll workers and the county and township clerks appear to be crooks betraying America.
So here is a column from an opinion writer with the Washington Post (see link below). He informs us on some of the details of that Antrim brouhaha. I include it here as a separate thread as it seems to me to be one more example as to why so much of America is so skeptical of the conviction is some quarters that the 2020 election āwas stolenā.
Plus the columnists fleshes out some of the count's 'irregularities' that sent the partisans on their harmful crusade. THAT is quite informative.
The āStop-the-Stealā voices have proven themselves so wrong, so unprepared, so uninformed and ill-informed, that their credibility is obliterated. Rudy G,. Krakenpot Powell, Trumps Jr and Sr.; Melissa Carone , Lin Wood, et al, havenāt inspired a whole lot of confidence.
And then comes Antrim County.
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From the column: (btw, what follows is just a small excerpt of a longer article. Think of it as a taster.)
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āIf you remember that the lower part of Michigan is shaped a bit like a left-handed mitten, look for Antrim County between the tips of the middle and ring fingers. Itās a beautiful place. The Lake Michigan beaches are delightful in summer. The fishing is fantastic year-round. Unlikely as it seems, this is an epicenter of Stolen Election mania.
On Nov. 3, 2020, Election Day, vote-tabulating machines in Antrim spat out the following results shortly after the polls closed, the committee found. In a county with 22,082 registered voters, 16,044 ballots were cast. A pretty good turnout. Not every ballot included a vote for president. Of those that did, the lionās share went to then-president Donald Trump: 9,748. Challenger Joe Biden received 5,960 votes.
No surprise. Rural counties in western Michigan reliably vote Republican.
What happened next was very surprising, though. When the results were fed into the county clerkās spreadsheet, flaws in the spreadsheet design produced a mistaken report that Biden had won Antrim County. But no one was fooled for a minute. Folks in Antrim immediately started looking for the cause of the suspected error. On Nov. 5, they figured out that a number of Trump votes had been improperly entered in the spreadsheet, and a new report was made with Trumpās total corrected.
Alas, now there were more āvotesā than actual ballots, so obviously the spreadsheet was still messed up. Antrim officials decided to recount the actual ballots. Back through the counting machines they went, exactly 16,044 of them. On Nov. 6, the tabulators spat out results identical to the original election night numbers: 9,748 for Trump, 5,960 for Biden. This total was eventually certified.
Just to be sure ā given the brief confusion ā a decision was made to recount the ballots again, this time by hand.
These results were finalized on Dec. 17. The painstaking manual inspection of the ballots found that the machines misread one ballot as a vote for Biden when it was not. Eleven ballots were determined to show Trump votes that the machines could not read. A total adjustment of 12 ballots out of nearly 16,000 presidential votes.
In other words, the original Election Day tabulation in Antrim County was 99.9 percent accurate.
Since then, the Internet and social media have been jammed with wild theories about international conspiracies to hack the vote in Antrim County. In the Joe Friday, just-the-facts tone preferred by McBroom, the report finds:
āEvents in Antrim County sparked a significant amount of concernā¦.which led to much speculation, assumptions, misinformation, and in some cases, outright lies meant to create doubt and confusion.ā The committee recommends that the Michigan attorney general consider investigating the various lowlifes who have deployed lies āto raise money or publicity for their own ends.ā
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(I 'bolded' that last sentence as I find it the most heartening of the whole column.)
Beautiful little Antrim, with itās county seat of a thousand souls, got be-smirched by careless, callous partisans who refused to do their homework. Including some on this venue.
Pity little Antrim County.
https://www.bing.com/maps?q=Antrim County&satid=id.sid:42fe6120-c0ae-4c88-c687-edf161c9ac0e
If you recall it was much in the news in some circles recently. Dominion voting machines, cheating, stolen election, vote fraud, etc. etc.
In fact, we had a cohort of critics of Antrimās ability to hold a fair election on this very venue. Some may wish to raise their hand. Judging by their posting history, those skeptics were vehement Don Trump supporters.
And then, the Secretary of Stateās office did an audit of Antrim and found no fraud. And then the Michigan GOP led Senateās Oversight Committee investigated Antrim countyā¦..and found no fraud. In the end, as it was the evening of November 3rd, Don Trump won Antrim County. Handily. Which no one was surprised by. Itās rural Michigan, it is GOP country. Has been for a long long time.
Regrettably, partisan critics made the good poll workers and the county and township clerks appear to be crooks betraying America.
So here is a column from an opinion writer with the Washington Post (see link below). He informs us on some of the details of that Antrim brouhaha. I include it here as a separate thread as it seems to me to be one more example as to why so much of America is so skeptical of the conviction is some quarters that the 2020 election āwas stolenā.
Plus the columnists fleshes out some of the count's 'irregularities' that sent the partisans on their harmful crusade. THAT is quite informative.
The āStop-the-Stealā voices have proven themselves so wrong, so unprepared, so uninformed and ill-informed, that their credibility is obliterated. Rudy G,. Krakenpot Powell, Trumps Jr and Sr.; Melissa Carone , Lin Wood, et al, havenāt inspired a whole lot of confidence.
And then comes Antrim County.
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From the column: (btw, what follows is just a small excerpt of a longer article. Think of it as a taster.)
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āIf you remember that the lower part of Michigan is shaped a bit like a left-handed mitten, look for Antrim County between the tips of the middle and ring fingers. Itās a beautiful place. The Lake Michigan beaches are delightful in summer. The fishing is fantastic year-round. Unlikely as it seems, this is an epicenter of Stolen Election mania.
On Nov. 3, 2020, Election Day, vote-tabulating machines in Antrim spat out the following results shortly after the polls closed, the committee found. In a county with 22,082 registered voters, 16,044 ballots were cast. A pretty good turnout. Not every ballot included a vote for president. Of those that did, the lionās share went to then-president Donald Trump: 9,748. Challenger Joe Biden received 5,960 votes.
No surprise. Rural counties in western Michigan reliably vote Republican.
What happened next was very surprising, though. When the results were fed into the county clerkās spreadsheet, flaws in the spreadsheet design produced a mistaken report that Biden had won Antrim County. But no one was fooled for a minute. Folks in Antrim immediately started looking for the cause of the suspected error. On Nov. 5, they figured out that a number of Trump votes had been improperly entered in the spreadsheet, and a new report was made with Trumpās total corrected.
Alas, now there were more āvotesā than actual ballots, so obviously the spreadsheet was still messed up. Antrim officials decided to recount the actual ballots. Back through the counting machines they went, exactly 16,044 of them. On Nov. 6, the tabulators spat out results identical to the original election night numbers: 9,748 for Trump, 5,960 for Biden. This total was eventually certified.
Just to be sure ā given the brief confusion ā a decision was made to recount the ballots again, this time by hand.
These results were finalized on Dec. 17. The painstaking manual inspection of the ballots found that the machines misread one ballot as a vote for Biden when it was not. Eleven ballots were determined to show Trump votes that the machines could not read. A total adjustment of 12 ballots out of nearly 16,000 presidential votes.
In other words, the original Election Day tabulation in Antrim County was 99.9 percent accurate.
Since then, the Internet and social media have been jammed with wild theories about international conspiracies to hack the vote in Antrim County. In the Joe Friday, just-the-facts tone preferred by McBroom, the report finds:
āEvents in Antrim County sparked a significant amount of concernā¦.which led to much speculation, assumptions, misinformation, and in some cases, outright lies meant to create doubt and confusion.ā The committee recommends that the Michigan attorney general consider investigating the various lowlifes who have deployed lies āto raise money or publicity for their own ends.ā
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(I 'bolded' that last sentence as I find it the most heartening of the whole column.)
Beautiful little Antrim, with itās county seat of a thousand souls, got be-smirched by careless, callous partisans who refused to do their homework. Including some on this venue.
Pity little Antrim County.
https://www.bing.com/maps?q=Antrim County&satid=id.sid:42fe6120-c0ae-4c88-c687-edf161c9ac0e