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When I dug into Mitch McConnell’s election results so many people said

“Now do Lindsey Graham”

I get it.
Lindsey got 672,941 votes in 2014.
In 2020 he DOUBLED his votes to 1,369,137.
Really😳

So I wanted to share more questions on Kentucky & some from South Carolina

THREAD👇

I initially was able to spot patterns in Kentucky since counties used different voting systems & results were inconsistent. Counties with unusual big wins for Mitch all used ES&S voting machines

But it’s harder to detect patterns in South Carolina since they use ES&S state-wide.

Recently while revisiting Kentucky’s data it led me down a path to South Carolina.

First I saw:
👉2,134,996 Kentuckians voted for the President
and
👉2,134,446 voted for the Senate
A difference of exactly 550?
That number felt tiny🤔

So then I reviewed Kentucky’s historic data.

In past elections, 20,000+ folks voted for President but left down-ballot races blank. That changed in 2020’s election:

2008: 25,687 (1.41%)
2016: 20,684 (1.07%)
2020: 550 (0.03%)

This number still stuck out so I went back further...before KY’s shift to electronic voting🤔

The change in the numbers since Kentucky shifted to electronic voting machines is stunning.

👉71,498 left down-ballot races blank in 2004 (3.98%)

👉Only 550 left down-ballot races blank in 2020 (0.03%)

Wow?!?😳
So I compared KY to other states & that’s how SC jumped out at me.

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