- Turnout was waaay down. My precinct had just under 200 votes total, but a veteran pollworker said they had triple that in 2016. However, that may be meaningless until we know how much absentee voting went up. But if the people that showed up were representative, there's no way these morons could have figured out absentee voting. Many could barely manage "bubble in a circle." More on that in a moment...
--Interjection: Based on congressional results I'm seeing live now, Trump is going to win Michigan. Meijer is walking away with the Amash seat, which Amash was expected to lose if he hadn't retired. Republicans in the safer seats are posting yuuge win margins. Anyway:
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Everything the Left ever says about "voter intimidation" is absolute bullshit. NOBODY gave a crap about their ballots being seen. The voter secrecy sleeves were actually too short for the ballots, so I could see their top-ticket vote anyway, but most of the time they took them right out for me to see, and often called me over to ask me about their ballot and show me who they were voting for. Three times, people would walk right over to "help" someone vote, which we were told was OK because they were family members (spouse or parent). I think that's bullshit and had it noted in the poll book.
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"Voter ID is racist" is also complete bullshit. In a 95% black precinct, we had 0% of voters unable to provide ID. Laws prohibiting ID requirements are ONLY to help illegals and criminals (but I repeat myself) vote.
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The result was 186 Biden, 9 Trump in the precinct. I hope Trump does better elsewhere among black Americans, and I suspect in places like Atlanta he will, but I learned a lot today about black Detroiters. To label them "black voters" isn't quite accurate (though technically they are). To label them "tribal" voters isn't quite accurate, either, because it wasn't like they were even rallied by some elder community leaders the way Arab voters are.
What seems to have motivated them, besides the usual long-term left-wing influence we understand well, was the cheat sheets they were all given as they walked into the polls. One called itself "the Black Slate(R)" --which of course endorsed voting straight-ticket Democrat, including the white Democrat (and complete idiot) Gary Peters against black Republican John James for US Senate. (I will post photo in comments).
Despite the law saying voters were not allowed to display campaign materials inside the polling place, literally almost every voter walked in carrying a stack of poll cards, which they displayed standing in line, copied from as they voted, and more often than not left behind at the voting booth for the next voter (had we not vigilantly removed them).
Essentially it was like they thought: "OK, I know I'm supposed to vote, and these are the people I'm supposed to vote for." They clearly knew nothing about any of these candidates--none.
If someone had stood out there handing out flyers "Black people should vote for Black people" and endorsed John James, and had Republicans maybe run a couple local candidates against non-black incumbents, they could have gotten their votes.
- There were a lot of problems that could mostly be ascribed to slop, laziness, and indifference rather than deliberate attempts at vote fraud. The real steal was in the absentee ballots. There was a video going around (before YouTube banned it and BitChute was nuked) pointing out that Detroit pollworkers were trained to accept an easily-forged scrap of paper saying someone was eligible to vote and be given a real ballot that would be forever counted in the tabulator. We got zero such notes. We had two or three people come in hoping to register and vote, and referred them to some satellite clerk's office, but nobody actually came in as a last-minute registration trying to vote.
I'm sure I can think of more, but that's all for now; those are the top points.
I counted absentee ballots for a city close to Detroit today. 95% straight Dem.