So inaccurate that we can't even attempt to make it right': Detroit absentee-ballot nightmare
As swing state Michigan approaches an election in which it could play a pivotal role, new data from its Aug. 4 primary reveals that in 72 percent of Detroit's election precincts, recorded ballot counts for absentee voters did not match the number of ballots actually cast.
"The people of Michigan deserve to know that their elections are being conducted fairly and competently, but today's news shows that Wayne County and the City of Detroit can't conduct an election to even the most basic of standards," Laura Cox, chairwoman of the Michigan Republican Party, said Thursday, according to the Detroit News.
Monica Palmer, a Republican member of the Board of Canvassers in Wayne County, which includes Detroit, said the mess involving the ballots was too tangled to ever unsnarl.
"It was so inaccurate that we can't even attempt to make it right," said Palmer, chairwoman of the board, according to the Detroit News.
“Based on the inaccuracies that we saw during the canvass, something has to happen. We can’t go into November with what occurred during the primary,” she said, according to WDIV-TV.
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