They pulled something with the smaller counties and the turnout.
Secretive group bombards Michigan clerks with requests for 2016 ballots
Aug 24, 2018
https://www.mlive.com/news/index.ssf/2018/08/michigan_clerks_receiving_foia.html
I think they were able to computerize and target the smaller counties for Get Out The Fraud operations - registered Democrats who weren't voting.
They weren't able to get the information from the larger counties (because it would take those counties past the election to produce the info) - whose turnout DROPPED in the Nov 2018 election.
However, in the smaller counties, the turnout for the Dems went BANANAS.
The legalizing dope (prop. 1 ) brought out a lot of dems pot heads.