Benny Napoleon Won???

[leland_palmer]

A county election official told the board the remaining votes were not counted because city election workers improperly tallied them.

The county uses hash-marks to tally votes. Instead, city election workers used numbers to tally some of the votes. Since numbers were used and not hash marks, they were uncounted.


Read more: http://www.wxyz.com/dpp/news/region/...#ixzz2cXhIrjE5

[drjeff]

A county election official told the board the remaining votes were not counted because city election workers improperly tallied them.

The county uses hash-marks to tally votes. Instead, city election workers used numbers to tally some of the votes. Since numbers were used and not hash marks, they were uncounted.


Read more: http://www.wxyz.com/dpp/news/region/...#ixzz2cXhIrjE5

This is one of the dumbest reasons I've ever heard for throwing ballots out. Were these workers really not instructed on how to correctly count/mark the ballots?

The other thing to take from this is that Duggan still won the election in a landslide but the ballot counters are imcompetent so it looks like Napolean won.

[Wesley Mouch]

This is one of the dumbest reasons I've ever heard for throwing ballots out. Were these workers really not instructed on how to correctly count/mark the ballots?

The other thing to take from this is that Duggan still won the election in a landslide but the ballot counters are imcompetent so it looks like Napolean won.

Just like the accounts receivable or cashier department apparently wasn't told that each incoming check is recorded in a log, and processed for deposit immediately upon receipt.

This helps reinforce that Detroit's biggest problem isn't the state nor the economy. Detroit's biggest problem is the apologists who keep saying that this is a national problem. No, its a local incompetence problem -- at least to a very large degree.