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Offline Kamaji

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Montana’s 2020 Election Irregularities Are Still Unaddressed Despite Recounts Gone Wrong, Erased Records, And Suddenly Surfacing Ballots

If large errors can occur in even relatively uncontested parts of the country, we should be broadly concerned. What went wrong?

BY: JOHN R. LOTT, JR.
APRIL 18, 2022

If we are going to avoid the type of debate that we saw after the November 3, 2020 election and restore confidence, then transparency is important. Take one of the least obvious places where people have concerns about the election — Montana.

Donald Trump won the state in 2020 by 16.4 percent. But there is an election transparency problem in Missoula County, Montana’s second-most populous county.

If errors can occur in even relatively uncontested parts of the country, we should be broadly concerned. What went wrong? Well, it all got worse after Covid-19 made mail-in voting mainstream.

Last January 4, a recount of the 2020 election in Missoula made national news when it found 4,592 fewer envelopes than the County Election Office’s tally of 72,491 votes. That is a 6.33 percent difference in votes counted. The county’s election was entirely mail-in, and envelopes were crucial for checking dates and signatures.

During that recount, the Missoula County election board provided 31 boxes of envelopes to be counted. On March 28, in a count commissioned by the Missoula County Republicans, the count resulted in only 71 fewer envelopes than votes.

Why the difference? For the March 28 count, the election board provided 33 boxes — two more than were provided in the first count (affidavits available here, here, and here).

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Source:  https://thefederalist.com/2022/04/18/montanas-2020-election-irregularities-are-still-unaddressed-despite-recounts-gone-wrong-erased-records-and-suddenly-surfacing-ballots/

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Ayup.

Missoula is a wacko-left college town... Surprised?  :whistle:
It is also the biggest lefty conclave west of the hump.  :shrug: