This has the ultimate effect of helping Clinton, though. The "broken" voting machines sometimes need to have a ballot passed through more than once to register correctly, but sometimes the vote count has to be adjusted... for some unexplained reason.
So what happens is they run one ballot through multiple times.
Leading to one ballot counting for many votes.
Clinton leads heavily in Detroit, so this means that Clinton's vote counts are inflated and can't be recounted when this type of "error" occurs, leaving her with a vote count that perhaps might be inflated.
Which leads to situations like this:
This, of course, is a trump elector so like so many other first hand reports of recount issues it may be worthwhile taking it with a grain of salt.
Still, the voting machines are very old. We use the same machines here in my area, and I have had a ballot spit back out and have to be reinserted, but I always assumed that such ballots weren't counted until accepted.
Stories of people opening the machine and passing through ballots again (even going so far as to accuse precinct officials of taking voting machines out of the building for dozens of minutes and bringing them back without explanation) do suggest that there are significant issues with the way we deal with voting.
What I'd like to see, and what Jill Stein says she's trying to do, is essentially call for a complete audit of the election. If nothing is wrong, great.
But obviously there are several things wrong, and even if the outcome doesn't change, we need to look closely at the process and outcome to understand where the issues are so we can try to fix them.
