I’d like the Secretary of State to explain to people the proper mechanism, and justification, for why a large quantity of votes (thousands of votes, at multiple times) would be subtracted from a candidate’s total on election night. Shouldn’t their vote total be entirely cumulative? Please explain what would justify any elimination of votes, or use of negative votes. Because it sure smells like fraud. Unless the Secretary of State has some other, rational, explanation.
If I take a vote from a purely imaginary voter, square it and add to the total, the total decreases. This is because the square of a pure imaginary is a negative number.
I believe the only way that a vote total should ever “decrease” for a candidate is if there was a mistake in tabulating the vote. This should be accompanied by a statement that on this date election officials erroneously double counted a batch of votes for candidate X.
Absent such an explanation and transparency about the mistake, I do not see how such a subtraction can occur. I definitely do not see how such a subtraction can occur in multiple counties. Can anyone compare these subtractions with prior election tallies? I bet there are far fewer examples from previous elections.
Where is the paper trail for this “subtraction”? The law requires record keeping for any election so there are either uncounted Trump votes in the boxes they will not allow an examination of or there is a pile of discarded Trump votes somewhere. Neither option inspires much confidence does it? Everything about this election appears incredible.