The answer to the Democrat Vice Chair’s question comes from a different part of this witness’ testimony. The DVC wanted to know why the overall vote counts weren’t a hugely different number than total people who voted. Without even addressing whether that’s true (like counties with 700+% turnout), here is the answer:
If you have 100 legitimate votes that are 60 Trump and 40 Biden, then you expect the total number of votes counted at the end of the day to be 100. If you count each vote twice, the total number of votes counted would be 200 and you would know there was a problem. This is what the DVC is saying. BUT if you only count Biden votes, you can count each vote twice and still be 20 votes short of the total votes cast.
This witness said there were only Biden votes there. That’s why recounting them HAD to be done. They were making up for discarded Trump votes.
The answer to the Democrat Vice Chair’s question comes from a different part of her testimony. The DVC wanted to know why the overall vote counts weren’t a hugely different number than total people who voted. Without even addressing whether that’s true (like counties with 700+% turnout), here is the answer:
If you have 100 legitimate votes that are 60 Trump and 40 Biden, then you expect the total number of votes counted at the end of the day to be 100. If you count each vote twice, the total number of votes counted would be 200 and you would know there was a problem. This is what the DVC is saying. BUT if you only count Biden votes, you can count each vote twice and still be 20 votes short of the total votes cast.
This witness said there were only Biden votes there. That’s why recounting them HAD to be done. They were making up for discarded Trump votes.
The answer to the Democrat Vice Chair’s question comes from a different part of her testimony. The DVC wanted to know why the overall vote counts weren’t a hugely different number than total people who voted. Without even addressing whether that’s true (like counties with 700+% turnout), here is the answer:
If you have 100 legitimate votes that are 60 Trump and 40 Biden, then you expect the total number of votes counted at the end of the day to be 100. This is what the DVC is saying. BUT if you only count Biden votes, you can count each vote twice and still be 20 votes short of the total votes cast.
This witness said there were only Biden votes there. That’s why recounting them HAD to be done. They were making up for discarded Trump votes.