Alright, throw it on the pile. No not that one, it got too big so we prepared another room.
More seriously, for anyone who thinks this was a rare event or a one-off: A team of analysts looked at the per-district time series data (so the number of votes reported by each district over time) and found that this was happening all over the place. Never by a large amount, never too many in any one district, but they discovered thousands of instances of the totals for Trump decreasing, usually by being swapped with the numbers for Biden.
Alright, throw it on the pile. No not that one, it got too big so we prepared another room.
More seriously, for anyone who thinks this was a rare event or a one-off: A team of analysts looked at the per-district time series data (so the number of votes reported by each district over time) and found that this was happening all over the place. Never by a large amount, never too many in any one district, but they discovered thousands of instances of the totals for Trump decreasing, usually by being swapped with the numbers for Biden.