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Counting Ballots with Charlie LeDuff

November 5, 2024

As I processed ballots, I realized I had written stories of insanity and insolvency about 40% of the office seekers

By Charlie LeDuff

Detroit — The polls have just closed. I don’t know how the election in Michigan will turn out. We’ll know tomorrow morning, perhaps. Perhaps next week, when the final absentee ballots are eventually tallied.

What I do know tonight is that there is huge international interest as to the goings on in Detroit, the center of the bogus ballot rumor of 2020. I worked the polls in Detroit then, just as I did last week, as a ballot processor in what used to be called Cobo Hall, then TCF Center, and now Huntington Place. The joint has had more aliases and facelifts than “Jack Rabbit” John Dillinger.

In order to avoid disputes and errors this year, the beleaguered Detroit City Clerk slowed the process to a snail’s pace. One ballot at a time to avoid counting imbalances and tabulator defaults. This was an improvement.

Read the rest of Charlie's column at: https://enjoyer.com/we-dont-know-the-election-results-screwed-michigan-politicians-charlie-leduff/

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