How HBO’s ‘Succession’ Got That Milwaukee Burned-Ballots Scene Wrong
thewrap.comwould know whose ballots were burned up.”“What they got wrong (and it’s sort of a key part of this plot line),” she wrote, “When MKE receives absentee ballots, they are logged in. (They use a barcode & scanner).
This is how you can track that your ballot arrived on Myvote! It’s really a great feature.”This would solve the question of whose votes were destroyed, but not, of course, how they voted.
As Sarah Snook’s Shiv Roy suggests, “They’d have to hold [the election] again. A re-vote.” She argues, “Even Dad would respect the process,” and that they cannot officially call the state for Mencken until the absentee ballots are counted, but she is overruled by brothers Roman and Kendall (Jeremy Strong).See Jacobs’ full thread below.The “America Decides” episode of “Succession” Season 4 is now streaming on HBO Max.
Wrong (cont'd):Because the ballots are logged in, we actually WOULD know whose ballots were burned up. (A very small # of ballots may be unaccounted for because they arrived on election day and hadn't been scanned yet, but likely fewer than 2 dozen).
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