{"id":69391,"date":"2016-12-13T15:49:53","date_gmt":"2016-12-13T20:49:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=69391"},"modified":"2016-12-13T15:49:53","modified_gmt":"2016-12-13T20:49:53","slug":"detroit-registers-more-votes-than-voters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=69391","title":{"rendered":"Detroit registers more votes than voters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.detroitnews.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2016\/12\/12\/records-many-votes-detroits-precincts\/95363314\/\">Detroit News <\/a>reports that voting machines in most of Detroit&#8217;s precincts reported more votes than voters;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Detailed reports from the office of Wayne County Clerk Cathy Garrett show optical scanners at 248 of the city\u2019s 662 precincts, or 37 percent, tabulated more ballots than the number of voters tallied by workers in the poll books. <\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Overall, state records show 10.6 percent of the precincts in the 22 counties that began the retabulation process couldn\u2019t be recounted because of state law that bars recounts for unbalanced precincts or ones with broken seals.<\/p>\n<p>The problems were the worst in Detroit, where discrepancies meant officials couldn\u2019t recount votes in 392 precincts, or nearly 60 percent. And two-thirds of those precincts had too many votes.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So, I guess that one kind of backfired. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Detroit News reports that voting machines in most of Detroit&#8217;s precincts reported more votes than &hellip; <a title=\"Detroit registers more votes than voters\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=69391\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Detroit registers more votes than voters<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69391\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}