Half of Detroit Votes May Be Ineligible for Recount

While Jill Stein is rolling in money from gullible Hillary voters, a sizable percentage of whom seem to believe the recount will show that she really won, there's much less enthusiasm from the Dem machine. Part of that is pragmatic. The sooner the election is buried, the sooner the party can move on. And the whole recount controversy breathes new life into Hillary Clinton's political career. And that's the last thing anyone who isn't a Republican or a Clinton employee would possibly want. 

But the other side of the coin is that a recount would focus attention on things like this. And the Dems have quite a few issues in that department.

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.

Not good is one way of putting it. Various technical issues are blamed. As they always are. Detroit is certainly a mess, but it really does raise the question of why Detroit is even allowed to participate in national elections under these conditions.