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Fact-Check: Timcast IRL’s ‘400,000 Fraudulent Michigan Voter Files’
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Timcast IRL, 12 August 2026: Michigan has "some 400,000 fraudulent voter files," and Elissa Slotkin won her Senate race "by something like 60,000 votes."
Verdict: false (truth score 0.1). Slotkin's margin was 19,006, and we could not source the 400,000 figure to any published document.
Episode 21:48. Two numbers, one bigger than the other, and an argument built so that arithmetic feels like verification.
The margin: Slotkin beat Mike Rogers 2,712,686 to 2,693,680 — 19,006 votes, 0.34 points, one of the closest Senate races in the…
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