Peeling Back the Rotten Michigan Onion

Blatant cheating, such as shutting out Republican observers at the TCF Center on Election Night 2020, is not all that makes the 2020 election suspect. Michigan is losing population relative to the rest of the nation, growing by just 193,691 residents in the 2010s according to the U.S. Census Bureau, which is doing all it can to prop up so-called blue states and restrict the expansion of red ones.

Bad trade deals have crippled Michigan’s trademark economic opportunities, and have restricted the growth of the state, which has remained stagnant since the 1970s. Thanks to this stagnation, the state has dropped an electoral vote for the 2024 and 2028 presidential elections. Since population growth feeds voter registration growth, one might think Michigan is going to see predictably flat voter registration growth, especially since the Democrats are so well-known for crippling industry that Michigan voters picked Donald Trump to be the first GOP nominee to carry the state since 1988.

Muskegon County, the state’s 12th largest county, was in the news this week, with The Gateway Pundit laying them out cold, highlighting a single activist seeking to dump off more than 8,000 fraudulent voter registrations on the same day. A review of the county’s voter rolls revealed 32,000 more registrations in the county than seem plausible based on a variety of factors. Keep in mind, these are the same voter rolls used to facilitate endless mail-in ballot requests, and which populate the electronic elections infrastructure. I had pegged Muskegon for an easy Trump flip, which would have been the first GOP presidential win there since 1988.

Biden managed to eke out a “win” in Muskegon, aided by 12,643 fraudulent votes, minimum, in the county – according to my methodology. Muskegon saw its voter roll swell by 8,424 net new registrations in 2008, from 121,992 to 130,416, in anticipation of what I like to call Obama-mania. Of course, the state swung 13 points to the left from 2004, and Muskegon mimicked that movement. Once that buzz wore off, the roll shrank by 737 in 2012, and then by 880 more in 2016. The reason is obvious – because the non-college white voter stopped being loyal to Democrats in Obama’s reelection campaign, and even more so when Clinton topped the party ticket in 2016; yet, somehow, 11,837 net new registrations appeared ahead of the Trump-Biden matchup in 2020, joining the rest of the waste highlighted above.

For the next portion of my trick, I will highlight the other eight counties noted as critical for fraud in my map (colored in red):

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