Michigan officials admit majority of Detroit vote counting machines broke on Election Day - Palmer Report https://t.co/Gx9btLqqrF

— John Markoff (@markoff) December 11, 2016

I have covered many African elections. I have a pretty good idea how western election observers would respond to this in, say, Kinshasa. https://t.co/bYLn9UujlI

— Lydia Polgreen (@lpolgreen) December 12, 2016

“…Even now, elections director Daniel Baxter appears to only be making the admission as part of a convoluted argument for why the ballots in those Detroit precincts can’t be recounted. He’s acknowledging that eighty-seven optical scanners in Detroit simply “broke” on the same day. But he and other Michigan officials are now making the argument that, because the broken machines resulted in different vote totals on the machines than on the precinct log books, state law means those ballots can’t be recounted…”