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Incompetence, not fraud, more likely the cause of election irregularities in Michigan

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Michigan is among the states that allow municipalities full discretion in running elections.

A new Bridge Magazine report for the Detroit Journalism Cooperative says a lot in just the headline. It reads, “Botched elections. Missing ballots. Is this any way to run a democracy?

When an audit of last year's election turned up discrepancies between the number of voters recorded and the number of ballots counted in Detroit, many people immediately jumped to the conclusion that fraud was involved. But this new report suggests incompetence was more likely to blame.

Joel Kurth wrote that report for Bridge Magazine and he joined Stateside host, Lester Graham, to explain.

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