Did Michigan’s Election Website Show Donald Trump Winning the State?

Nope.

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Even though it was announced on Wednesday that Joe Biden won Michigan, a viral Instagram post with a screenshot of the vote tally for Michigan, is suggesting otherwise. 

This is false. The Michigan secretary of state’s website does not say Trump won. 

On Thursday morning, the secretary of state’s office quickly clarified the matter on Twitter, explaining that “Michigan’s election system is decentralized,” and that the media gets to see real time results from “local jurisdictions.” 

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    Grandma B

    This was just posted on my FB page by a seriously delusional friend. Sounds QAnnon to me:

    BQQM 🎇 ELECTION FRAUD UPDATE!!!
    If you have been following for a long time and you know the term "watch the waters" you probably understood it to mean the 3 gorges dam but it was never referring to that!! The "watch the water" intel refers to .....THE WATERMARK on the official election ballots!!!! The original ballots are also registered on a QFS blockchcain to prevent fraud. 12 states were targeted. The National Guard has been deployed to 12 states: Alabama, Arizona, Pennsylvania, Colorado, Texas, Wisconsin, Tennessee, Washington, Virginia, Delaware, Illinois and Kentucky and they are now counting the official ballots!!!!

    The DEMS fell right into the trap of this sting operation and TRUMP has it all!!! Fraud will be exposed for the world to see.
    And isn't it fancy how the amazing Justice Amy was confirmed right before the election so that she can rightfully take care of the business of election fraud.... Oh and this is only the beginning of the EPIC times that lie ahead!!!

    So, did Trump win by a landslide? You will soon see that he did!!!!!!!!

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    Grandma B

    Khaya, some of my Trumpster FB friends have been promoting the claim that Trump had all ‘official ballots’ watermarked and sometime soon, any minute now, maybe tonight, if not tomorrow, but certainly by Sunday, he is going to “prove” the massive fraud from the Democrats. Have you heard about something like this?

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      Vlad M.

      That is insane, Barb. I, too, would've preferred Trump to win but that is an insane theory with no merits whatsoever.

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      Lindy

      I've not heard that one. Interesting. I'm also not an election expert, but I'm pretty sure the federal government doesn't have ANYTHING to do with the ballots. Each state prints them or otherwise provides voting equipment. In my state of Texas, various voting jurisdictions don't even use the same method of voting. My district votes with a paper ballot that gets put into a machine that counts total ballots (but not I believe what the votes are, I could be wrong). My son in law, who votes in another Texas district voted electronically and never even touched paper. The Constitution details the responsibility for running the elections to the states, which is a good thing. Can you imagine how crazy it would be if one centralized location was responsible for all the ballots in all the states? Just my sparsely populated (by comparison) East Texas county has 4 districts all of which require individual ballots because, for instance, the constable running for my district is not the same as the constable running in the other three districts. So how Trump could have all the various, who knows how many, ballots 'watermarked', especially if there is nothing of substance like paper to watermark escapes me. And Texas has a lot of counties, 254 of them. To give an idea how many different voting districts that might be, keep in mind that we have many fewer representatives, 36. My county shares our representative with other counties. Counties like Dallas (Dallas), Harris (Houston) or Travis (Austin) with their much higher population density have representatives for various parts of the same county resulting in those counties have multiple representatives. So if my county which shares it's representative with other counties has four distinctly different ballots required, how many different and distinct ballots are required for a county like Dallas, Harris or Travis, which by the way, though we tend to refer to those cities as one entity, the truth is those are only the largest cities in those counties, not the only cities. I lived in DeSoto, TX for a number of years. It's in Dallas county. Those of us who are familiar with the DFW area (Dallas and Tarrant Counties) know that what we refer to as Dallas-Fort Worth is also Mesquite, DeSoto, Irving, Arlington, Duncanville, and so on and so on. I couldn't list them all, I don't know them all, especially the ones up north. But each of those cities has it's own mayor, own council, own school board many times, own sherriff etc, even if they share a representative. All of this is to say, it would be a nightmare for ballots to be anything but local which, to me, makes the idea that Trump had ANYTHING to do with them downright silly. Of course, now I'm curious, I wonder just how many individual ballots Texas does have to prepare?

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        Grandma B

        Thanks. That’s sort of what I thought. It sounds like one of those QAnon theories about a grand conspiracy where Trump as our savior will swoop in and save us all. It’s truly hard to believe that people actually continue to believe this stuff...especially when none of the prior predictions come true.

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