When reported results seemed off in Antrim, MI, the Republican clerk compared the poll tapes (precinct totals) 2 reported totals. They shld match, but didn’t. Turned out she had updated the ballot format of 1 precinct but shld have done all 16 to match. 1/ https://www.freep.com/story/news/politics/elections/2020/11/04/michigan-antrim-county-election-results-trump-biden-blue/6162541002/
Antrim County election results investigated after red Michigan county turns blue

In 2016, Trump won Antrim County with about 62% of the vote. This year, the results in the GOP stronghold in northern Michigan were almost reversed.

https://www.freep.com/story/news/politics/elections/2020/11/04/michigan-antrim-county-election-results-trump-biden-blue/6162541002/
“‘What was missed, you know, is on us,’ Guy [Antrim County’s long time Republican county clerk] said. ‘That’s a very hard lesson to learn. But this will never happen in Antrim County again.’” 2/ https://www.record-eagle.com/news/disinformation-agents-were-watching-and-waiting-to-exploit-an-error-like-antrim-countys/article_404c0e4e-2695-11eb-8517-8fa00b7f3aa1.html
Disinformation agents were watching and waiting to exploit an error like Antrim County's

TRAVERSE CITY – In early October, Antrim County Clerk Sheryl Guy learned she had to reorder the ballots for one of the precincts she oversees. A candidate for trustee in

https://www.record-eagle.com/news/disinformation-agents-were-watching-and-waiting-to-exploit-an-error-like-antrim-countys/article_404c0e4e-2695-11eb-8517-8fa00b7f3aa1.html
3/ The lesson of Antrim, Michigan is NOT that Trump was cheated. It’s that the clerk, a Republican, reviewed the poll tapes in response to an anomalous reported result, found a discrepancy, investigated, corrected it, and publicly explained what happened.
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