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2016 Postmortem
Showing Original Post only (View all)Michigan recount has exposed thoroughly inept and suspicious original counting process [View all]
http://www.palmerreport.com/news/mohican-recount-exposes-thoroughly-inept-original-counting-process/402/Just one day into the court-ordered Michigan statewide recount, and its already become clear why Michigans state officials had fought so hard against a recount to begin with. From mysterious holes torn in ballot containers, to mismatched ballot tracking numbers, its quickly become apparent that Michigans original vote counting effort which narrowly named Donald Trump the winner in a shockingly unrealistic result was either extraordinarily sloppy or extraordinarily suspicious.
In fact, some officials in Michigan are now flat out claiming that their precincts cant be recounted, because the damage done during the original counting process makes it impossible for them to be properly recounted. Of course such a circular argument, that the destruction of evidence by those being investigated should be grounds for not continuing with the investigation, cant possibly hold up in court. And it suggests that third party candidate Jill Stein, who forcibly initiated the Michigan recount, may have to go right back to the federal judge in question in order to force these precincts to go ahead and recount the ballot containers they tampered with.
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Michigan recount has exposed thoroughly inept and suspicious original counting process [View all]
flamingdem
Dec 2016
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Blaming this on a conspiracy between state and local election officials is ridiculous
MichMan
Dec 2016
#9
Should still be able to count the actual ballots. They know why the machine counts were off,
jmg257
Dec 2016
#12
US elections can never be won as long as we have these states running the game
BSdetect
Dec 2016
#17