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In mid-December 2016, a number of web sites reported that more votes than voters were uncovered in post-election processing in Detroit, suggesting (or stating outright) that the discrepancy was clear proof of voter or electoral fraud: Over and again web sites reported more votes than voters in Detroit, a claim that was naturally interpreted by many people as more votes than registered voters: But one prominent early Detroit news article on the subject explicitly reported that the issue was not more votes than registered voters: So the discrepancy, while newsworthy, had nothing to do with the number of votes tallied exceeding the number of registered voters (an impossibility in a fair election), but rather the number of voters recorded by poll workers exceeding the number of voters recorded by voting machines (a circumstance that suggested errors on the part of machines and/or human workers rather than fraud). The documented problems with the voter count records hindered recount efforts: As of 15 December 2016, the Detroit Free Press reported that human error was clearly the primary issue: So while elections officials in Detroit confirmed that voting irregularities involving excess vote counts existed, that issue was about inaccurate head counts taken by poll workers rather than fraud. The discrepancies mostly involved a handful of votes per precinct, and neither candidate was believed to have been favored by the errors. Reports of equipment malfunctions in Michigan precincts were widely covered after the 8 November 2016 general election.
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