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2016 Postmortem

womanofthehills

(8,700 posts) Wed Dec 7, 2016, 02:10 PM Dec 2016

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Michigan Election Officials Refuse to Recount Thousands of Ballots in State's Communities of Color

The Green Party’s best chance to overturn a statewide victory by Donald Trump has run into a swamp of dubious election protocols in Michigan, where Detroit officials said nearly two-thirds of the precincts cannot be recounted because of poor record-keeping on or after election night—presumably the rationale for a recount.

Meanwhile, in the state's legislature, a House committee passed a bill retroactively requiring the Greens to pay more for the recount.

http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/michigan-election-officials-refuse-recount-thousands-ballots-states-communities-color

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Michigan Election Officials Refuse to Recount Thousands of Ballots in State's Communities of Color (Original Post) womanofthehills Dec 2016 OP

how is that legal to pay more retroactively? KewlKat Dec 2016 #1

... Faux pas Dec 2016 #2

Wouldn't that be an expost-facto law? Those are a no-no. shraby Dec 2016 #3

Exposing American democracy as a fraud. Coyotl Dec 2016 #4

Our elections are a sham. Rex Dec 2016 #5

KewlKat

(5,624 posts)

1. how is that legal to pay more retroactively?

Reply to womanofthehills (Original post)

Wed Dec 7, 2016, 02:12 PM

Dec 2016

Hell most of the votes we need to count can't be per more BS

Faux pas

(14,668 posts)

2. ...

Reply to womanofthehills (Original post)

Wed Dec 7, 2016, 02:27 PM

Dec 2016

ASS HATS

shraby

(21,946 posts)

3. Wouldn't that be an expost-facto law? Those are a no-no.

Reply to womanofthehills (Original post)

Wed Dec 7, 2016, 03:17 PM

Dec 2016

Coyotl

(15,262 posts)

4. Exposing American democracy as a fraud.

Reply to womanofthehills (Original post)

Wed Dec 7, 2016, 05:40 PM

Dec 2016

Rex

(65,616 posts)

5. Our elections are a sham.

Reply to womanofthehills (Original post)

Wed Dec 7, 2016, 05:45 PM

Dec 2016

Those elected are just place card holders for the owners.

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