State of the recount: Missing ballots in MI, lawsuit launched in PA, WI counts on, and now FL?

In Michigan, a mismatch between the number of ballots reported and the number of ballots found in the box would seem like a good reason for a recount … except apparently not.

The computerized poll book listed the names of 848 voters who cast ballots there, but the ballot box contained just 847 ballots. So where is the other ballot? The poll workers' notes offered no explanation.

"It didn't match on the canvass and it doesn't match now," said Joe Rozell, Oakland County's director of elections. "This precinct is not recountable.

One missing ballot is enough to declare a precinct “not recountable?” This is happening a lot, and knocking out counts in hundreds of districts.

In Wayne County, about one-third of precincts showed discrepancies during the November canvass, said Krista Haroutunian, chair of the Wayne County Board of Canvassers. Those discrepancies could make those precincts — 610, including 392 in Detroit — ineligible for recount, though a final decision has yet to be made.

Plus: the Michigan legislature works to make recounts too expensive to contemplate, Maine takes a second look at its marijuana vote, and the Green Party goes before the judge in Pennsylvania.