Palast writes: "Officially, Donald Trump won Michigan by 10,704 votes. But a
record 75,335 votes were never counted. Most of these votes that went
missing were in Detroit and Flint. How do you disappear 75,355 votes? I flew
to Michigan to investigate."
Detroit area election workers recount ballots in Detroit. (photo: John
Locher/AP)
Recount Killed to Cover Up 75,000 Ballots NEVER Counted
By Greg Palast, Reader Supported News
15 December 16
Officially, Donald Trump won Michigan by 10,704 votes. But a record 75,335
votes were never counted. Most of these votes that went missing were in
Detroit and Flint.
How do you disappear 75,355 votes?
I flew to Michigan to investigate.
Thousands of bubbles filled in next to the candidate's name couldn't be read
by the optical scanning machines in Michigan and Wisconsin but a much better
machine, the human eyeball, can easily read what the voter intended.
In Trumpville, rural Michigan, their hero, Bill Schuette, the Republican
attorney general of Michigan shut down the recount. Schuette issued an order
saying that no one would be allowed to look at the ballots in over half the
precincts, 59%, in the Detroit area-the very place that most of the votes
had gone missing.
Back in Detroit, some of the votes missing resulted when 87 machines,
responsible for counting thousands of ballots, broke down. We went to speak
with the secretary of state, whose spokesman said the missing votes in
Detroit were simply people who waited in line but didn't want to vote for
president.
And so the recount slogged through, uncovering missing votes and missing
voters that could change the presidency. So Republicans rushed in to shut
down the recount completely. Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, here in Michigan-we
may be way north of the Mason-Dixon Line, but the elections are still run by
Jim Crow. For Democracy Now!, this is Greg Palast.
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Greg Palast has been called the "most important investigative reporter of
our time - up there with Woodward and Bernstein" (The Guardian). Palast has
broken front-page stories for BBC Television Newsnight, The Guardian, The
Nation Magazine, Rolling Stone, and Harper's Magazine. He is the author of
the New York Times bestsellers Billionaires & Ballot Bandits, Armed
Madhouse, The Best Democracy Money Can Buy, and the highly acclaimed
Vultures' Picnic, named Book of the Year 2012 on BBC Newsnight Review. His
books have been translated into two dozen languages. His brand new film of
his documentary reports for BBC Newsnight and Democracy Now! is called
Vultures and Vote Rustlers.
Reader Supported News is the Publication of Origin for this work. Permission
to republish is freely granted with credit and a link back to Reader
Supported News.
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Detroit area election workers recount ballots in Detroit. (photo: John
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Recount Killed to Cover Up 75,000 Ballots NEVER Counted
By Greg Palast, Reader Supported News
15 December 16
fficially, Donald Trump won Michigan by 10,704 votes. But a record 75,335
votes were never counted. Most of these votes that went missing were in
Detroit and Flint.
How do you disappear 75,355 votes?
I flew to Michigan to investigate.
Thousands of bubbles filled in next to the candidate's name couldn't be read
by the optical scanning machines in Michigan and Wisconsin but a much better
machine, the human eyeball, can easily read what the voter intended.
In Trumpville, rural Michigan, their hero, Bill Schuette, the Republican
attorney general of Michigan shut down the recount. Schuette issued an order
saying that no one would be allowed to look at the ballots in over half the
precincts, 59%, in the Detroit area-the very place that most of the votes
had gone missing.
Back in Detroit, some of the votes missing resulted when 87 machines,
responsible for counting thousands of ballots, broke down. We went to speak
with the secretary of state, whose spokesman said the missing votes in
Detroit were simply people who waited in line but didn't want to vote for
president.
And so the recount slogged through, uncovering missing votes and missing
voters that could change the presidency. So Republicans rushed in to shut
down the recount completely. Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, here in Michigan-we
may be way north of the Mason-Dixon Line, but the elections are still run by
Jim Crow. For Democracy Now!, this is Greg Palast.
Greg Palast has been called the "most important investigative reporter of
our time - up there with Woodward and Bernstein" (The Guardian). Palast has
broken front-page stories for BBC Television Newsnight, The Guardian, The
Nation Magazine, Rolling Stone, and Harper's Magazine. He is the author of
the New York Times bestsellers
http://www.gregpalast.com/ballotbandits/Billionaires & Ballot Bandits, Armed
Madhouse, The Best Democracy Money Can Buy, and the highly acclaimed
Vultures' Picnic, named Book of the Year 2012 on BBC Newsnight Review. His
books have been translated into two dozen languages. His brand new film of
his documentary reports for BBC Newsnight and Democracy Now! is called
Vultures and Vote Rustlers.
Reader Supported News is the Publication of Origin for this work. Permission
to republish is freely granted with credit and a link back to Reader
Supported News.
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