It’s official - 1,913,369 ballots were cast but never counted in the 2016 presidential race. That’s from the US Elections Assistance Commisson: gregpalast.com/1913369-ballot…
“The US Civil Rights Commission took a look at #Florida’s throw-away pile and calculated that your chance of having your vote simply go uncounted, ‘spoiled,’ is 900% higher if you're Black than if you're white.”
“In 2016, Trump won Michigan by 10,704 votes. Officially.
Here’s what you don’t know: 75,355 ballots were never counted. That’s official, too. Just ‘spoilage,’ that is, ballots that were, for some technical reason, untallied. But not just anyone’s vote ‘spoiled.’ Most of these...
Here’s what you don’t know: 75,355 ballots were never counted. That’s official, too. Just ‘spoilage,’ that is, ballots that were, for some technical reason, untallied. But not just anyone’s vote ‘spoiled.’ Most of these...
... vanished votes were cast in Detroit — where only one in ten city residents are white. Motown. Not exactly Trump-Ville.”
“If you counted those ballots in the dumpsters in Detroit, Clinton would have won. And if this pattern held in the other two states’ exit polls that reported she won, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, Clinton should have won the Electoral College.”
“In Michigan, you vote on paper ballots — which you shove into a scanner to get counted. But a funny thing happened in Detroit: 87 machines broke down, they could not read the ballots. Once in Detroit, I met with information specialist Carlos Garcia. He told me his precinct’s...
...scanner was already busted when he arrived at the opening of voting at 7 a.m. It was finally fixed at 9:30 a.m. He stayed and saw that those ballots cast during the morning vote rush, while the machine was broken, were never run through the scanner, never recorded.”
“But — ready for this? — the Republican Attorney General ruled that if the number of physical ballots did not match the scanner count, these precincts could not be re-counted.
The precincts with the missing count — the ones you’d want to review — were barred from the re-count.”
The precincts with the missing count — the ones you’d want to review — were barred from the re-count.”
“Republican state officials knew before Election Day that Detroit’s scanning machines were already busted, dysfunctional or likely not to survive the day. Well before November 2016, Detroit City Clerk Janice Winfrey pleaded to fund her budget to replace the bad ballot scanners...
...But there was a problem: Detroit was bankrupt — and every penny spent had to be approved by ‘managers,’ - overlords appointed by the Republican Governor Rick Snyder.”
“Ballot reviewers were adding previously uncounted ballots to the Clinton column; Trump operatives were challenging every Clinton vote, every decision for Clinton. They are creating chaos and slowing up the process, and making up nonsense rules to disqualify ballots...
...At the same time, the Democratic Party had brought in ‘observers who refused to take part in the ballot count, nor even bother to get in the way of the GOP obstructers...
...Despite all the obstruction, it was clear that if the count went ahead unimpeded, Trump would lose Michigan. So Trump did the only thing he could do: stop the count.”
