DETROIT, MI -- The state Board of Canvassers voted Tuesday to certify election results from Detroit's Aug. 6 primary election after staffers reviewed write-in ballots and calculated totals that differed vastly from Wayne County numbers. Michigan Bureau of Elections workers spent days re-tabulating write-in ballots from 385 of Detroit's 614 precincts after Wayne County's Board of Canvassers declined to certify results because of questions surrounding the way mayoral write-in votes were initially counted. In some precincts, poll workers did not use hash marks to count write-in votes, leading the County Clerk's office to seek to disqualify thousands of votes and...
