Misinformation raged on November 4, 2020, including a highly engaging tweet from Mike Coudrey (@MichaelCoudrey) falsely claiming there were more votes counted in Wisconsin than there are there were registered voters It looked like this:
We have already mentioned Coudrey, a repeat offender, during previous checks; once during a wave of disinformation about Jeffrey Epstein, and once while pushing for medical disinformation Since Coudrey’s tweet on « direct evidence of fraud » involving « more votes than people registered to vote In Wisconsin was removed, source of attached content unclear
Wisconsin reports 3,239,920 polls They only have 3,129,000 registered voters here is the proof photoTwittercom / 2lYGft5yXX
Unsurprisingly, similar claims have proliferated on 4Chan’s / pol / (archived) These claims focused more on overall attendance in Wisconsin, not citing the numbers in the tweets
Coudrey claimed that there were 3,129,000 registered voters in Wisconsin and that 3,239,920 votes were counted It was extremely easy to verify According to the state of Wisconsin archives:
On November 3, 2020, we saw a claim from Sean Hannity that misled social media users about the states with a same-day signup – in this case, in Minnesota, in this case, the state of Wisconsin also allowed same day check-in:
Wisconsin had 3,684,726 active registered voters as of November 1, 2020, not 3,129,000 It was safe to assume that voters knew they could register and vote on election day, which made the number of registered voters even higher than the number of 3,684,726 provided by civil servants
Coudrey’s deleted tweet falsely claimed that there were 3,239,920 votes counted in Wisconsin, but only 3,129,000 although the claim was easily proven false based on Wisconsin records (they- (even not reflecting same-day recordings), it has proliferated alongside unsubstantiated claims that it is « direct evidence of fraud »
Update, 1:03 p.m., 11/04/2020: The numbers cited in the article – mainly the figure of 3,129,000 – may come from this post on 4Chan’s / pol / (archived)
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