![]() ![]() “We’re assuming there were (human) errors, and we will have discussions with Detroit election officials and staff in addition to reviewing the ballots,” Thomas said. 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. This isn’t normal,” said Krista Haroutunian, chairwoman of the Wayne County Board of Canvassers. ![]() “There’s always going to be small problems to some degree, but we didn’t expect the degree of problem we saw in Detroit. ![]() And two-thirds of those precincts had too many votes. The problems were the worst in Detroit, where discrepancies meant officials couldn’t recount votes in 392 precincts, or nearly 60 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. But Republican President-elect Donald Trump won Michigan by 10,704 votes or 47.5 percent to 47.3 percent. 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.ĭemocrat Hillary Clinton overwhelmingly prevailed in Detroit and Wayne County. 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.ĭetailed 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. The Detroit News reports Records Show Too Many Votes in 37% of Detroit’s Precincts. Coincidentally, the Detroit area voted heavily for Clinton. Meanwhile, in Michigan, more votes were tallied in the Detroit area than there were people who voted. ![]() Trump received 1,405,284 votes – 22,748 more than Clinton. ![]()
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