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Michigan Recount Uncovers Too Many Votes in 37% of Detroit Precincts
2016-12-14
[GP] Green Party candidate Jill Stein’s Michigan recount unintentionally exposed major voter fraud in Detroit.

Election officials in Michigan found that 37% of precincts in Detroit tabulated more ballots than the number of voters tallied by workers in the poll books. Hillary Clinton won Wayne County over Donald Trump 67% to 30%. State officials are planning to examine about 20 Detroit precincts where ballot discrepancies occurred.

Detroit News reported:

Voting machines in more than one-third of all Detroit precincts registered more votes than they should have during last month’s presidential election, according to Wayne County records prepared at the request of The Detroit News.

Detailed reports from the office of Wayne County Clerk Cathy Garrett show optical scanners at 248 of the city’s 662 precincts, or 37 percent, tabulated more ballots than the number of voters tallied by workers in the poll books. Voting irregularities in Detroit have spurred plans for an audit by Michigan Secretary of State Ruth Johnson’s office, Elections Director Chris Thomas said Monday.

The Detroit precincts are among those that couldn’t be counted during a statewide presidential recount that began last week and ended Friday following a decision by the Michigan Supreme Court.

Democrat Hillary Clinton overwhelmingly prevailed in Detroit and Wayne County. But Republican President-elect Donald Trump won Michigan by 10,704 votes or 47.5 percent to 47.3 percent.

Overall, state records show 10.6 percent of the precincts in the 22 counties that began the retabulation process couldn’t be recounted because of state law that bars recounts for unbalanced precincts or ones with broken seals. The problems were the worst in Detroit, where discrepancies meant officials couldn’t recount votes in 392 precincts, or nearly 60 percent. And two-thirds of those precincts had too many votes.

"There’s always going to be small problems to some degree, but we didn’t expect the degree of problem we saw in Detroit. This isn’t normal," said Krista Haroutunian, chairwoman of the Wayne County Board of Canvassers.

State officials are planning to examine about 20 Detroit precincts where ballot boxes opened during the recount had fewer ballots than poll workers had recorded on Election Day.
Posted by:Besoeker

#17   If the seal is broken or the tally doesn't match the actual number of ballots, that box cannot be recounted. Ballots handed out to voters are not necessarily ballots cast by voters, but that is the way the rules are in Michigan. OTOH, when more votes are counted than registered voters exist in a precinct, that is definitely fishy.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418   2016-12-14 22:28  

#16  Sometimes incompetence is just another form of corruption.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418   2016-12-14 22:25  

#15  #1 They are going to blame this on Putin as well?

National People's Radio is shopping the story that this is simply the result of tired poll workers making mistakes after working long hours or improperly stacking boxes and damaging the seals. While once may be an accident, 60% of the time is a tad suspicious. Feel free to choose between corruption and incompetence as an explanation.

Michigan uses paper ballots that are marked with a felt-tip pen and run by hand thru an optical scanning machine. At the end of the day, ballots are counted and sealed in boxes. If the seal is broken or the tally doesn't match the actual number of ballots, that box cannot be recounted.

Like the man said, what matters is who gets to count the votes.
Posted by: SteveS   2016-12-14 18:12  

#14  Don't you know - that was because of the 75,000 votes that never got counted there, and kept Hillary from winning. I read that someplace on the web so I know it's true.
Posted by: Glenmore   2016-12-14 16:29  

#13  Hey! Great-great-great grandma's and grandpa's voices must be heard!
Posted by: Mad Eye Ulutle3433   2016-12-14 13:06  

#12  Detroit is not "Michigan".
Posted by: Pappy   2016-12-14 13:01  

#11  Hillary just could not imagine that with all that fraud she still lost.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2016-12-14 12:17  

#10  To be fair, she could not have had these results if she tried.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2016-12-14 10:26  

#9  OOPS! Nothing to see here,people. Move along! Move along!
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839   2016-12-14 09:45  

#8  I had never heard of Jill Stein before this election. Does she step on rakes for a living?
Posted by: Matt   2016-12-14 09:02  

#7  Of course, this will largely go unreported by the MSM.
Posted by: jvalentour   2016-12-14 07:51  

#6  This should be on proposed Attorney General Session's "clean-up" list. All Detroit polls should have federal supervisors for 2018 election.
Posted by: Heriberto Greper9897   2016-12-14 06:52  

#5  Will not, not will. PIMF.
Posted by: no mo uro   2016-12-14 06:21  

#4  Anyone out there still believe that the publicly employed/welfare class will do ANYTHING to keep their magic paychecks?
Posted by: no mo uro   2016-12-14 06:20  

#3  "There’s always going to be small problems to some degree, but we didn’t expect the degree of problem we saw in Detroit. This isn’t normal"

It's Detroit, Jake.
Posted by: no mo uro   2016-12-14 06:18  

#2  99% of those extra ballots voted D and for the D's pet projects... but Republicans and Russians will be blamed.
Posted by: DarthVader   2016-12-14 04:47  

#1  They are going to blame this on Putin as well?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2016-12-14 02:11  

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