Antrim County may have exposed a significant issue with voting during the 2020 Presidential election.
If it was not for a history of STRONG conservative voting in a Northern Michigan County, we might not have been aware of yet ONE more way in which Michigan’s vote is being manipulated.
This mornings discovery of a Biden win in Antrim County was by any estimation an amazing thing. Literally ‘flipping’ the 70% GOP stronghold on its head, the vote gave the former president an unrealistic win over the popular President. The county clerk somehow missed the obvious* after the tallies were made and the data reported up to the state. From the Free Press:
Antrim County Clerk Sheryl Guy, a Republican who ran unopposed and won a third four-year term Tuesday in the strongly GOP county, said results on electronic tapes and a computer card were accurate but it appeared that some of the results were somehow scrambled after the cards were transported in sealed bags from township precincts to county offices and downloaded onto a computer.
In 2016, Trump won Antrim County with about 62% of the vote, compared to about 33% for Democrat Hillary Clinton. Trump beat Clinton by about 4,000 votes.
Last nights reported total had Biden beating Trump 7769 – 4409.
And to add a little perspective on this, I would wager that at least 4500 Antrim County folks were present for the Trump Rally Monday. In fact the county is SO PRO TRUMP, they sent logging trucks to assist in the rally prep, providing additional walls for the event and protection of our President.
Anyone familiar with this part of the state would immediately recognize the numbers as being suspect. It certainly calls for a complete and intensive investigation, and reminds us that election integrity in Michigan is not guaranteed. Officials might claim that the system worked and we caught it this time, but somehow this rings a little untrue. What would have happened I wonder – if the predisposition of the county to the GOP was less known?