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In 2016, Donald Trump "won" Michigan by 10,704 votes. Officially.

Here’s what you don’t know: 75,355 ballots were never counted.

gregpalast.com/1913369-ballot…
That’s official, too. Just “spoilage,” that is, ballots that were, for some technical reason, untallied. gregpalast.com/1913369-ballot…
Not just anyone’s vote gets “spoiled.” In Michigan, in 2016, most of these vanished votes were cast in Detroit — where only one in ten city residents are white. Motown. Not exactly Trump-ville. gregpalast.com/1913369-ballot…
It's never just anyone’s ballot that gets tossed into the electoral dumpster. The US Civil Rights Commission took a look at Florida’s throw-away pile and calculated that your chance of having your vote “spoiled,” is 900% higher if you're Black than if you're white.
And mail-in ballots are far easier to challenge than in-person votes, so Trump’s trolls could pull off another “win” by challenging even more than the 2 million successfully blocked nationwide in the last election. gregpalast.com/22-of-mail-in-…
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