Wednesday, September 4, 2013

State elections director: Re-tabulation prevented disenfranchisement of over 24,000 Detroit voters

09/04/13


DETROIT, MI -- The state Board of Canvassers voted Tuesday to certify election results from Detroit's Aug. 6 primary election after staffers reviewed write-in ballots and calculated totals that differed vastly from Wayne County numbers.

Michigan Bureau of Elections workers spent days re-tabulating write-in ballots from 385 of Detroit's 614 precincts after Wayne County's Board of Canvassers declined to certify results because of questions surrounding the way mayoral write-in votes were initially counted.

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