In light of the tight results of the presidential race in some states, many social media users have alleged that voter fraud has skewed the tallies. But some of the examples circulated online have turned out to tell a different story than what they initially appeared to be.
Biden Gets 130,000 Votes, Trump Zero in Michigan
Around 5 a.m. on Nov. 4, data firm Decision Desk HQ updated the vote count for Michigan, adding 138,339 votes to former Vice President Joe Biden, but zero to President Donald Trump. The statistical impossibility of such a scenario prompted people to speculate that votes were illegally injected into the tally.Within 40 minutes, however, Decision Desk HQ posted another update which subtracted 110,796 votes from Biden’s total and added 16,638 to Trump’s. It later said a clerical error in Shiawassee County caused the distribution of incorrect data and has since been fixed.
