Sunday, November 10, 2024

Election spotlight on Battle Creek/ Calhoun County Michigan: Case of the untallied votes


Retiring Guy has been trying his darndest to keep the 2024 crop of election conspiracy theories at bay.  And what a wide-ranging harvest it's been.  This mlive article, however, isn't helping.


Note:  2024 vote tallies are preliminary
3rd party votes:  22.7% in 1992, 9.9% in 1996. 5.5% in 2016
(Alabama segregationist George Wallace received 11.2% of the vote in 1968)
Headline:  mlive, 11/8/2024

Days after the Tuesday, Nov. 5, election, thousands of votes were found to be reported incorrectly in one Michigan county, with the possibility of altering the outcome of a race. 
Calhoun County posted its vote tallies online following the election, however untallied votes were later discovered, according to an attorney. 
The county’s unofficial results are showing Democrat Rep. Jim Haadsma with 17,852 votes and Republican challenger Steve Frisbie with 19,233 votes in the race for the 44th District in the Michigan House of Representatives. 
Haadsma’s attorney, Chris Trebilcock, said 12 precincts from Battle Creek involving about 4,000 votes were incorrectly reported in the county’s unofficial results due to a software error.

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