According to the Detroit News, the Wayne County Board of Canvassers deadlocked 2-2 Tuesday along party lines on whether to certify the Nov.3. election results, thereby not certifying the election results.

The reason they did so was because the absentee ballot poll books of 70% of Detroit’s absentee counting boards were discovered to be out of balance, and there was no explanation for the why.

Republicans celebrated the decision as caring about transparency and truth, Democrats flipped out claiming the objections were politics.

Chairwoman Monica Palmer, a Republican, said based on what she saw and found in the poll books, “I believe that we do not have complete and accurate information in those poll books.”

But the Democratic Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson said that the state would step in. //

Democrats like Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) blamed, what else, racism for the decision by Republicans while Republican John James said Republicans were just calling for free and fair elections that could be trusted. //

Kayla Ruble
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In a late night twist, the Wayne County Board of Canvassers unanimously agrees to certify the results, on the condition Secretary of State’s office conduct a comprehensive audit of the unexplained, out of balance precincts across the county. //

Now in the end, an audit may actually turn out to be better, assuming that the state does a real audit. Because they were just going to go around the Republican vote anyway and certify it anyway. This way they are actually going to have to explain the irregularities.