Michigan Starts Recounting Presidential Ballots on Judges Order.

[Blue Shoes]

Source: Wall Street Journal

Michigan began a recount of presidential ballots on Monday after a federal judge ordered state officials to move forward with the effort without delay.

In an order issued Monday, U.S. District Judge Mark Goldsmith said the state must begin recounting ballots in the presidential race beginning Monday afternoon. Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein has successfully raised and paid the fee required to trigger a recount.

Read more: http://www.wsj.com/articles/federal-judge-orders-ballot-recount-to-proceed-in-michigan-1480952448

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Progress is being made at least.

[KewlKat]

1. now get to those 88,000 ballots that didnt have a vote

Cast for president before the GOP stops the count.

[lagomorph777]

2. "undervotes" my eye

this should be interesting...

[MichMan]

3. Write ins could be most of them

In Michigan, you are required to indicate ahead of time that you are running as a write in candidate. There were several that did, however write in votes for people like Bernie Sanders, Elvis, Harambe, or Oprah Winfrey were not counted. I imagine there were quite a few that wrote in Bernie considering that he won the primary

[riversedge]

4. Tossing away your vote is so silly to me.

[MichMan]

5. Wonder how many thought Hillary had it won

Unfortunately, I wonder how many believed the polls and thought Hillary was going to win anyway, so it didn't matter