Looking at the 17,000+ duplicate ballots that were counted in the official results, what was the vote breakdown there?
Oh yeah. I forgot about that. Ironically, even though we don't know how they voted, we do know the names of the people who sent in two and three ballots... I actually think they deserve a phone call from the auditors, or maybe some election officials, asking why they sent in two, three and four ballots. Because isn't that kind of a crime?
Looking at the 17,000+ duplicate ballots that were counted in the official results, what was the vote breakdown there?
They couldn’t know. They were evaluating the ballot envelopes and found duplicate submissions. The County declared both sets of the envelope signatures valid (usually received a week apart), took the ballots out and mixed them with all the other ballots before counting them.
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I’ve been trying to understand this all day as to why they couldn’t tell the vote breakdown.
So what you’re saying is that there are duplicate envelopes and not ballots?
If that’s the case then I understand.
“They were evaluating the ballot envelopes and found duplicate submissions. The County declared both sets of the envelope signatures valid (usually received a week apart), took the ballots out and mixed them with all the other ballots before counting them.”
I’m not sure if that’s true. Not saying it isn’t, but the presentation didn’t make that clear. Obviously, if the county counted all the duplicate ballots that were sent, then it’s a slam dunk, since the 17,000 figure is almost twice the margin of victory. The reason I’m not sure if this is the case though, is because later in Dr. Shiva’s presentation, he displayed duplicate envelopes where one copy was stamped ‘approved” and the other one wasn’t. The key number would seem to me to be the number of duplicate envelopes that have “approved” stamped on them rather than the total of duplicates mailed in.