![]() Going full circle, Mackowiak - after realizing the error - deleted his original tweet, which then disappeared from Walsh's post and from Trump's. ![]() No honest person can look at this and say it's normal and unconcerning."Īs the post soared across social media, Walsh's tweet was, in turn, retweeted at midmorning by Trump, who posted it with a headline is all caps: "WHAT IS THIS ALL ABOUT?" He added this intro: "This is reason enough to go to court. Mackowiak's post was picked up and retweeted by Matt Walsh, a conservative writer, blogger and speaker who writes for The Daily Wire. Watch Video: How the US votes and why advocates say it needs to changeĪt the same time, conservative columnist and podcaster Matt Mackowiak posted the sharply climbing vote count, with this comment: "An update gives Biden 100% of new votes - 128+" More: Fact check: Trump ballots were not thrown out as claimed by fake poll worker Not long after it was posted, Twitter tagged it as containing disputed information. The post did not explain the source of the original data, leaving it unclear whether it was information posted by Michigan election officials or some other group. "So while everyone was asleep and after everyone went home, Democrats in Michigan magically found a trove of 138,339 votes, and all 138,339 of those 'votes' magically went to Biden? that doesn't look suspicious at all" The claim of some nefarious vote spurt was quickly picked up by various conservative media, such as this post by Sean Davis, co-founder of the Federalist. There is no evidence of voter fraud, particularly since the error was quickly corrected on the county election site. The memes were based on an apparent typo by a county in Michigan in reporting local voting data. The screenshots showed no time stamp nor indicated who had posted the vote tallies.įact or fiction: We're fact checking the news and sending it to your inbox. The social media claims were accompanied with screenshots of vote tallies showing an addition of 138,339 votes for Biden, but none for anyone else. The allegation was picked up by conservative social media posters, widely shared and eventually retweeted by President Donald Trump. The claim: 100K votes in Michigan were 'magically' added to Biden's vote tally during the night.Īfter weeks of warnings of potential voting fraud, the sudden purported overnight surge of more than 100,000 votes in Michigan - all for Vice President Joe Biden - sent social media into overdrive. Watch Video: 2020 election: Biden calls for unity as votes continue to be countedĬorrections & clarifications: This story has been updated to reflect the source of the voting data error, a clerical error in Shiawassee County, Michigan, that caused an incorrect vote tally to be reported in government data.
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