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2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumMichigan Election Officials Refuse to Recount Thousands of Ballots in State's Communities of Color
The Green Partys best chance to overturn a statewide victory by Donald Trump has run into a swamp of dubious election protocols in Michigan, where Detroit officials said nearly two-thirds of the precincts cannot be recounted because of poor record-keeping on or after election nightpresumably the rationale for a recount.
Meanwhile, in the state's legislature, a House committee passed a bill retroactively requiring the Greens to pay more for the recount.
Meanwhile, in the state's legislature, a House committee passed a bill retroactively requiring the Greens to pay more for the recount.
http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/michigan-election-officials-refuse-recount-thousands-ballots-states-communities-color
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Michigan Election Officials Refuse to Recount Thousands of Ballots in State's Communities of Color (Original Post)
womanofthehills
Dec 2016
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KewlKat
(5,652 posts)1. how is that legal to pay more retroactively?
Hell most of the votes we need to count can't be per more BS
Faux pas
(15,376 posts)2. ...
ASS HATS
shraby
(21,946 posts)3. Wouldn't that be an expost-facto law? Those are a no-no.
Coyotl
(15,262 posts)4. Exposing American democracy as a fraud.
Rex
(65,616 posts)5. Our elections are a sham.
Those elected are just place card holders for the owners.