Thread by @case_texas

This claim, taken from the #texascase is based on a misunderstanding of how Detroit absentee vote numbers are reported. If you look at the Statement of Votes Report for Wayne County ( waynecounty.com/documents/cler… ), you can confirm that the following is true:

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https://twitter.com/TheRightMelissa/status/1337404126263734272

To understand the basic format, skip ahead to the first precinct outside Detroit: "City of Allen Park, Precinct 1," near the bottom of page 46.

The data is reported in three rows: "Election Day" (in-person votes), "AV Counting Board" (absentee votes), and "Total."

(2/15)

Each row lists "Registered Voters" (which is the same for all three rows, and represents the number of voters registered as living in that precinct, not the number of registered voters who voted there), "Cards Cast" (i.e., ballots), "Voters Cast," and "% Turnout."

(3/15)

Here, we can see that there are 1,518 registered voters in Allen Park Precinct 1, of whom 425 (28.00%) voted in-person and 626 (41.24%) voted absentee, for a total turnout of 1,051 (69.24%).

All of the non-Detroit precincts follow this same format.

(4/15)

The Detroit precincts are a little different. Since we're already near the bottom of page 46, let's examine the *last* Detroit precinct, "City of Detroit, Precinct 503," right above the Allen Park precinct we just looked at.

(5/15)

The format looks the same, with one oddity: On the "AV Counting Board" line, all of the entries other than "Registered Voters are 0!

(6/15)

Taking this entry at face value, it appears that there are 185 registered voters in Detroit Precinct 503, of whom 25 (13.51%) voted in person and *none* voted absentee (0.00%), for a total turnout of 25 (13.51%).

(7/15)

Scrolling up, we can see that *every* Detroit precinct is like this — none of them list any absentee votes at all!

The explanation for this: In Detroit, absentee votes are counted by 134 Absente Voter Counting Boards (AVCBs), not by the 503 regular precincts.

(8/15)

Each of these AVCBs is legally treated as a separate precinct, and the votes they count must therefore be reported separately from those of the 503 regular precincts — and they are, on pages 93 to 105, as "City of Detroit, AVCB 1" to "City of Detroit, AVCB 134."

(9/15)

Each of those 134 AVCB "precincts" lists 0 "Registered Voters," because voters are registered as living in their regular precincts, not as "living in" an AVCB.

(10/15)

Once again: The "Registered Voters" number for Precinct X is the number of individuals who are registered to vote and whose voter registration says they live in Precinct X, *not* the number of people who voted at Precinct X in 2020 and who are registered voters.

(11/15)

A registered voter who lives in Precinct 503 and whose vote was counted by AVCB 134 adds one to the "Registered Voters" count for Precinct 503, not the "Registered Voters" count for AVCB 134.

(12/15)

So the fact that all of the AVCB "precincts" list 0 for their number of "Registered Voters" doesn't mean that none of the votes counted by the AVCBs were cast by registered voters, or even that none of them were confirmed to have been cast by registered voters.

(13/15)

It just means that no one "lives in" the "precinct" of "people who voted absentee in 2020 and whose votes were counted by AVCB 134."

(14/15)

In his Declaration in the #TexasCase , Cicchetti describes the 174,384 votes counted by Detroit AVCBs as "counted without a registration number," because he's either confused about what those 0s mean, or trying to confuse others. Don't fall for it.

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