Michigan recount has exposed thoroughly inept and suspicious original counting process

[ChetSinger]

19. Sure, here:

From the Detroit News: Half of Detroit votes may be ineligible for recount

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 short, the machines in Detroit have too many votes in them. The elections director's excuse is that when ballots were inserted multiple times into flaky machines that the poll workers "failed" to subsequently adjust the machine's counters. Right. If Republicans made an excuse like that would you believe them? I sure wouldn't.

Jill has uncovered nastiness in MI, just maybe not the kind she was expecting.