One-third of precincts in Detroit and Wayne County could be disqualified from a statewide recount of presidential election results because of problems with ballots.
The county voted overwhelmingly for Hillary Clinton, but officials couldn’t reconcile vote totals for 610 of 1,680 precincts during a countywide canvass of vote results.
The Detroit News reports that in heavily Democratic Detroit, the number of ballots in precinct poll books did not match those of voting machine printout reports in 59 percent of precincts.
Precincts whose poll books don’t match with ballots can’t be recounted. If that happens, original election results stand.