Bonus Votes

During the effort to recount Michigan, it was revealed that some precincts reported a different number of votes than there had been voters.  Votes reported didn't equal ballots counted in the ballot box.  Oops!  Of the 3,047 precincts selected for recounting, 322 had such discrepancies.  That works out to 10.6% error rate.  Yikes, that's kind of high.  This article noted some counties that had higher error rates.  Ionia County - located between Lansing and Grand Rapids - had 24% of the precincts with a mismatch between votes counted and ballots submitted.  Of course, only 26,204 votes were cast there, accounting for maybe one half of 1% of all the votes cast in the state.  Then there was Branch County - on the Indiana border - which had 27% of the precincts mismatch. However, only 16,430 votes were cast, making it even less of a factor than Ionia.  Then we come to the worst offender: Wayne County.  A whopping 37.5% of the selected precincts reported more votes cast than there had been voters.  Of the 332 precincts with discrepancies, 248 were in Wayne County.  Therefore, 77% of the over-votes occurred in a county where Hillary won 66.8% to Trump's 29.5%, a margin of 288,934 votes.  This one county - out of 83 in the state - accounted for 16.1% of all the votes cast.  If you had to pick one county in the state where shenanigans could swing the state, Wayne County is the place.

 

So far, no articles list how many bonus votes were counted.  Did a precinct that should have had 500 votes report 501 votes or 650 votes?  Is this much ado about nothing or has major voter fraud been uncovered?  Will this be swept under the rug since the recount changed nothing and Trump has now been confirmed by the electoral college?  Whatever the case, Michigan needs to address the over-vote problem before the next election.