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| Waiting to see the tally. |
However shall the vote be certified?
Let us watch the process in real time, then, compare this same process with the 2018, 2016, 2014 & 2012, possibly even 2010 and 2008, but, hey, what do I know?
Wayne County, Michigan Board of Canvassers
Each of the 83 Boards of County Canvassers in the State of Michigan is currently composed of two Republican members and two Democratic members, appointed by the County Board of Commissioners to four year terms. The Board members are responsible for canvassing the votes cast within the county they serve. The Board members certify elections for all local, countywide and district offices which are contained entirely within the county they serve. The Board members are responsible for inspecting the county's ballot containers every four years. The County Canvass Board also conducts recounts for all units of government within the county they serve.
The current members of the Wayne County Board of Canvassers are:
- CHAIRPERSON - Monica Palmer, Republican
- VICE-CHAIRPERSON - Jonathan C. Kinloch, Democrat
- MEMBER - Mayra Rodriguez, Republican
- MEMBER - Allen Wilson, Democrat
Canvassers demand answers after 72% of Detroit's absentee ballot counts were off
The board charged with certifying election results in Michigan's largest county is asking Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson's office to investigate after problems with tracking ballots in Detroit's primary, which one official described as a "perfect storm."Counts for ballots in about 72% of Detroit's absentee voting precincts for the Aug. 4 primary election were out of balance without an explanation, according to information presented Tuesday to the Wayne County Board of Canvassers. The number of ballots tracked in precinct poll books did not match the number of ballots counted.
The election results weren't incorrect, said Jonathan Kinloch, a Democrat and one of the canvassing board's four members. But, he said, something had gone wrong in the process of tracking ballots precinct by precinct.
The Wayne County Board of Canvassers approved this resolution asking the Michigan Secretary of State's office to investigate "the training and processes" used by Detroit for the 2020 primary election.
Having balanced precincts is particularly important in Michigan because precincts whose poll books don’t match with ballots can’t be recounted, according to state law. Instead, the original election results would stand.
"It was a perfect storm," Kinloch said.
The "storm" involved a record number of absentee ballots being cast in Michigan's primary and seasoned election workers not feeling it was safe to help with administering the election because of COVID-19, he added.
The Wayne County board is asking Benson, a Detroit resident, to investigate "the training and processes used by the City of Detroit" in the primary election. The board also requested that the first-term Democrat appoint a state monitor to oversee the counting of absentee ballots in the general election.
The Board of State Canvassers is set to meet at 2 p.m. Friday to certify election results from around Michigan.
You cannot certify a state election if there are valid challenges formally grieved. That is called due process. Egads! Whatever shall they do?
The developments in Wayne County come as national attention has focused on voting by mail, which President Donald Trump has repeatedly criticized in recent weeks, and as Michigan experiences its first statewide elections with no-reason absentee voting after voter approval of a 2018 constitutional amendment.
Detroit had problems with precinct count mismatches in the November 2016 election. Election officials couldn’t reconcile vote totals for 59% of precincts in the city during a countywide canvass of vote results.
Those votes couldn't be recounted when Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein demanded a statewide recount following Donald Trump's initial 13,000-vote victory over Democrat Hillary Clinton. A recount was started but stopped by the courts when Stein was ruled ineligible for a recount request because she had no chance at victory.
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