I would have never believed a year ago that I'd be fact-checking vote fraud claims where Trump's legal team willfully confused PA primary and general mail ballot data
I mean, seriously, who could be dumb enough to put forth an argument that primary mail ballots are the same as general election mail ballots, and who could be even stupider to believe it?
Oh, this guy, a PA state Senator now calling to annul the election
The "expert" witness for the Kraken plaintiffs analyzes a survey of people who have a record of casting an absentee ballot. It is a survey! Must be 100% accurate, right? But, let's dive into it anyway courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…
The key piece of evidence of vote fraud are the "troublesome" ballots from people who are recorded as returning an absentee ballot from people who supposedly never requested a ballot. Must be evidence of massive vote fraud, right?
The most obvious point of rebuttal is found in this table (this one is for Georgia). See anything that might explain why people have a record of voting a mail ballot but supposedly never returned them?
Why are the large numbers of Arizona mail ballots breaking for Trump and the Pennsylvania ballots breaking for Biden? A couple of reasons...
In Pennsylvania, most voters who requested mail ballots for the primary automatically had their requests renewed for the general. Since the Democratic primary was contested, there were a large number of Democrats who had their requests rolled over to the general
Of course, Pennsylvania election officials could not begin processing any mail ballots until election day. The large number of returned ballots heavily favor the Democrats
Biden's Nevada lead is going to expand. I imagine there are furious decision desk discussions happening right now as to whether or not to call Nevada for Biden. Given some media calls for Arizona, this would effectively make Biden the presumptive president-elect
The media orgs that haven't called Arizona might thus hesitate to call Nevada because they don't want to foster the perception that their collective calls mean Biden is the presumptive president-elect
I honestly don't know how Arizona shakes out. Biden looks good, but there is a fair amount of uncertainty. I wouldn't have called it yet
That is not a typo. The 2020 presidential election had the highest turnout rate in 120 years. There is still a fair amount of guesswork involving outstanding ballots to be counted. I will continue to refine these estimates over the coming weeks
2020's turnout in historical perspective. Highest in a 120 years, but not an all-time high
Washington turnout is going to go higher. This all-mail ballot state has the longest post-election period of accepting mail ballots, if the ballot has a postmark on or before Election Day