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onenote

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7. His numbers are plucked from thin air.
Wed Nov 20, 2024, 01:21 AM
Nov 20

There is no publicly available data from which one could compute the number of "bullet ballots" at this point. Moreover, the difference between the number of ballots cast in the presidential race in the states he cites, when compared to the number of ballots cast in other statewide races in those same states, does not support his claims. For example, he claims that Trump received 350,000 "bullet ballots" in North Carolina which would be an unusual number. But not only does he not indicate where he pulls that number from, the official results on the North Carolina establish that the total number of ballots cast in the presidential race did not exceed the total number of ballots cast in the governor's race by anywhere near 350,000. Since a bullet ballot is a ballot in which a vote is cast in only one race and the other races on the ballot are ignored, his claims don't hold up to scrutiny as a matter of simple math.

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