The Russians just had to flip 40,000 votes in three States

[MichMan]

96. Since Detroit is 95% Dems and there were overvotes in those precincts........

Detroit is over 95% Democratic. It is illogical to think that extra votes from feeding ballots through twice would favor anyone but Hillary

From my understanding the state law dates back to the early 50's when there were a lot of allegation in a Governor's race that ballot boxes were tampered with etc. afterwards. Not a surprise that you wouldn't want to have a recount in precincts with irregularities. Unless you believe that unsecured ballot boxes and missing poll books should be counted after the fact; I don't, as there is a real possibility of mischief under those circumstances. How can anyone discern what the situation was at the time of the election vs. what might have later been meddled with?

The issue was that Detroit Election workers in those precincts were either sloppy or didn't follow the guidelines from their training. The city Elections Clerk, Janice Winfrey has admitted that the training wasn't adequate in many cases and has promised improvements

from the link below

"State law spells out a prescribed criteria for determining whether a precinct can be recounted. Workers first check to make sure the number of ballots on the seal of the container matches the ballots recorded by workers on Election Day.
“If the seal number matches, then we know it’s not been tampered with,” Rozell said.
If numbers don’t match, then workers can count all of the ballots in the precinct twice to see if there was an error made by workers on Election Night.

“If it does not match after the second count, then it’s not recountable,” Rozell said.
Entire precincts can be set aside in a recount if the ballots are stored in an unapproved container or if it isn’t properly sealed."

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/2016/12/05/recount-unrecountable/95007392/