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Voter fraud in Detroit naaaaaah.....In this case "no recount" may equal "protecting Democrat fraud."

Half of Detroit's votes may be ineligible for recount, because 'problems with ballots'

By Robert Laurie ——--December 6, 2016

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In a way, Michigan is a bit like California. Urban centers vote heavily for Democrats, but the rest of the state has a tendency to break for Republicans. This means a large swath of the population is, at least politically, held hostage by a few failing, very left-wing, cities. This year, the Mitten went red for the first time since 1988, but desperate Dems were hoping Jill Stein's ridiculous recount could "find" enough votes to tip the scales in their favor.
Now we have word that much of the State's bluest area - Wayne County, home of the City of Detroit - will probably not even be included in the recount. Blame those pesky ballots... From the Detroit News:
One-third of precincts in Wayne County could be disqualified from an unprecedented statewide recount of presidential election results because of problems with ballots. Michigan’s largest county voted overwhelmingly for Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton, but officials couldn’t reconcile vote totals for 610 of 1,680 precincts during a countywide canvass of vote results late last month. Most of those are in heavily Democratic 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.
According to state law, precincts whose poll books don’t match with ballots can’t be recounted. If that happens, original election results stand. “It’s not good,” conceded Daniel Baxter, elections director for the city of Detroit. He blamed the discrepancies on the city’s decade-old voting machines, saying 87 optical scanners broke on Election Day. Many jammed when voters fed ballots into scanners, which can result in erroneous vote counts if ballots are inserted multiple times. Poll workers are supposed to adjust counters to reflect a single vote but in many cases failed to do so, causing the discrepancies, Baxter said.
In other words, in a heavily Democrat area, ballots "may" have been counted multiple times, election workers "may" have failed to correct for the overage, and now there's a "ballot problem" that "may" prevent a recount.
Republican President-elect Donald Trump won Michigan by a razor-thin margin, 10,704 votes. Presumably, Clinton’s best opportunity to eliminate that margin rested in finding uncounted ballots in Wayne County, which she carried by a 2-1 ratio. Disqualifying huge numbers of precincts would make it “almost impossible” for the former New York senator to make up the votes, said Ernest Johnson, a Democratic political activist who worked to get out the vote for Clinton.

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I know what you're thinking, and I'm thinking it too. Given the fact that this is a Dem-heavy area, what are the odds that they know a legitimate recount would show that they'd tilted the vote in Hillary's favor? After all, they basically admit that they were overcounting votes and not correcting for it. Wouldn't the "discrepancies" mentioned above help Mrs. Clinton? Why would they want to recount, if it's only going to show that poll workers were helping her out and she actually fared worse than initially thought? I'm not saying this absolutely happened, but it seems awfully suspicious. If the default response to this is to let the originally certified vote stand, Hillary would likely be better off going that route - and if the Dems had their finger on the scale, no one will be any the wiser. In this case "no recount" may equal "protecting Democrat fraud."
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