Records: Too many votes in 37% of Detroit’s precincts

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"Overall, state records show 10.6 percent of the precincts in the 22 counties that began the retabulation process couldn’t be recounted because of state law that bars recounts for unbalanced precincts or ones with broken seals.

The problems were the worst in Detroit, where discrepancies meant officials couldn’t recount votes in 392 precincts, or nearly 60 percent. And two-thirds of those precincts had too many votes."

Am I reading this correctly: if a district has an unbalanced vote count (a red flag for manipulation) it is removed from the overall recount total? Or, does the recount simply not move forward in those districts and the original count numbers are used?

The former feels more reasonable to me while the later would seem to undermine the recount's viability as an anti-manipulation check.

The original count numbers are used. You're right that this rule undermines the recount's viability. Michigan (and other states) have a voting system where a single vote can be scanned in six times. It appears that we have an election system that was (and remains) easily rigged.

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