But it’s harder to detect patterns in South Carolina since they use ES&S state-wide.
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👇
But it’s harder to detect patterns in South Carolina since they use ES&S state-wide.
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.
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🤔
👉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.
2008: 49,538 (2.58%)
2016: 53,134 (2.53%)
2020: -1,775 (-0.07%)
Suddenly it all flipped in 2020.
MORE folks came out to vote in Lindsey Graham’s SENATE race yet left Trumps race blank?
It defies both logic & historical data.
2014: 672,941
2020: 1,369,137
An increase of 103%
Yet Trump only increased his votes by 20% since his last election🤔
2016: 1,155,389
2020: 1,385,103
South Carolina has a long history with ES&S. And the state just bought new ES&S equipment (the same models used in Kentucky). This despite a computer expert trying to point out the states problematic ES&S history.
Wouldn’t it be interesting to look at a state who used ES&S for decades & switched to another type of voting machine in 2020?
Well we can. Consider the case of Georgia...
At the time of the controversial 2018 gubernatorial race between Stacey Abrams & Brian Kemp (the man who at that time ran Georgia’s elections) they used old ES&S machines.
Of 3.9M+ votes cast, about 160,000 of them left the Lieutenant Governor race blank. That was 80,000 fewer votes than other down-ballot races.
Neither logic or historic data supported these results but they couldn’t dispute them since the paperless ES&S machines couldn’t be audited.
For example, a precinct had 7 voting machines.
On 6 of the machines Dems won every race.
On the 7th machine...Republicans won every race🤯
A statistician described this scenario as “less than one in one million”
From 2002 when Diebold/ES&S entered GA to 2020 when they left...
the GOP won EVERY Senate race.
Maybe that’s why 209 out of 227 countries use #Paperballots
Georgia changed after shero Stacey Abrams energized the voters...but also after she helped get ES&S out of their state🤔
But Georgia couldn’t audit elections til local GOP were forced to change to auditable systems. And not until the GOP lost did they undertake manual hand counts.
That’s why a Federal approach is critical. We need impactful legislation passed ASAP
KY, SC & GA exemplify why they wanna keep control.
We know the GOP gerrymander & frantically pass laws to curb voting.
So let’s not draw a line at questioning illogical electronic voting results.
#RecountKentucky
Republicans are canceling orders & choosing not to buy Dominion. Which sends them running into the arms of ES&S...
I recently wrote an article on it👇
https://t.co/AAtFA983kS
