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> Not sure how whatever conjured view of voter turnout YOU have is relevant. You can go to https://elections.wi.gov/elections-voting/statistics/turnout grab `Voter Turnout Partisan-NonPartisan Through August 2020.xlsx` and see that turnout percentage is computed as `number of votes cast` / `voting age population`.

This is funny -- here's a single example from the WI.gov page to show how little care is given to cultivating and maintaining this data...

HINDI: 56184

County: ST. CROIX COUNTY

Municipality: VILLAGE OF SPRING VALLEY

Total Electors 2012: 4

Voting Age Estimate 2012: 6

Voter Turnout 2012: 66.67%

Total Electors 2016: 319

Voting Age Estimate 2016: 10

Voting Turnout 2016: 3190.00%

So I can find slivers that support wild claims too. I think the more productive discussion is just doing a side by side of signatures and rolls - not that hard, no real argument about it - and everyone can stop trying to dig for little things and becoming unbearably pedantic with each other.



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