Posted on 12/06/2016 9:12:49 AM PST by lionstar
The Michigan recount finished its first day, and there were already reports that half of Detroit’s votes might not be recounted, as well as other problems with ballots.
The reason so many Detroit ballots could get left out of the recount: The number of ballots listed in poll books is not the same as the totals given on machine printouts.
Clinton rang up huge margins in Wayne County, home to populous Detroit, and she would likely need her margin there to grow in order to shrink Trump’s 10,704 vote margin in Michigan. Clinton received 66 percent of the Wayne County vote on November 8.
The news of the Detroit problems broke in the Detroit News on December 5 as two Michigan counties started recounting ballots from the 2016 presidential election. The newspaper reported that “one-third of precincts in Wayne County could be disqualified” from the recount because of ballot problems. According to the newspaper, officials “couldn’t reconcile vote totals for 610 of 1,680 precincts” during last month’s countywide canvass of Election Day returns, adding that most are in Clinton stronghold Detroit, “where the number of ballots in precinct poll books did not match those of voting machine printout reports in 59 percent of precincts, 392 of 662.”
The Detroit Free Press quoted an expert who questioned the Michigan recount law, which varies from other states in that, if there is a discrepancy between the number of ballots and those listed in poll books, a recount can not be done in that precinct, and original results stand if the “difference is not explained to the satisfaction of the board of canvassers.” This happened on day 1 of the Michigan recount, when a Rochester Hills precinct could not be recounted because of a missing ballot, said the newspaper.
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Jill Stein is making the case that a massive overhaul and reform of our electoral process is in order.
I don’t think that was her intention.
Ballot stuffing - they didn’t even show up for the votes to get tallied against machine totals.
What does this mean?
Only a few day’s ago FR’s tinfoil brigade was warning us hysterically of 100,000 Hillary undervotes in Wayne County.
Looks like that scenario just vanished into the air. Merry Christmas!
Time to start requiring ID.
So if your fraud is significant enough, you get to keep all your fraudulent votes? What a country!
It means they had a lot more votes on the machines than they had signed in on the registers.
A friend of one of my gnomes was a poll watcher in Detwaa said their was a lot of “stuff” going on, obviously the gnome was spot on.....
Must have been one of the Soros machines.
3 central Florida voters sue for recount in state, asserting Hillary Clinton won state’s vote - Tallahassee Democrat
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Looks like it its a wash. Hillary won’t get more than a few dozen votes or so out of Wayne as the recount proceeds.
Its over.
It means some persons had a bunch of ballots and marked them likely straight party democrat. Those were fed into the machine at some point.
Trump won FL by over 100,000 votes.
Someone is smoking weed in Broward. This suit will go nowhere.
What is the margin of discrepancy requirement? Is it just 1 vote off?
Jill Stein should be suing Detroit. That’s where the mother lode of fraud lies.
There’s already a bill in the statehouse. They’re gonna try to get it through in the lame duck session.
CC
This could mean Clinton getting even more votes even though there is evidence that the Democrats were more likely guilty of fraud than the Republicans.
Another case of Friedman's Law of Unintended Consequences.
It means they've unintentionally discovered ballot box stuffing for Clinton, but the media are helping them brazen through it by pretending that these "irregularities" are proof that the Michigan vote was unfair to Clinton.
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