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In reply to the discussion: I was wrong, votes weren't flipped or prevented from being counted in 2016. [View all]catbyte
(34,373 posts)Too many skeevy things happening. At the time, we had a GQP Governor, Secretary of State, Attorney General. They dominated the Michigan Supreme Court and had both houses of the legislature, the Senate with a veto-proof majority (which didn't matter but there you have it.)
In the months leading up to the election, The Secretary of State threw 187,000 voters off the rolls in the Detroit Metro area without much explanation. Court cases were denied.
Former guy received a little over 13,000 more votes than Clinton out of approximately 7.5 million. There was a recount that the Attorney General sued to stop when former guy's lead dwindled to 10.7K.
There was too much sleazy stuff in 2016. The result?
Michigan now has a Democratic Governor, SOS, AG, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, the State House lost GQP seats. and the Senate lost its veto-proof majority. We also passed an anti-gerrymandering prop and enshrined strengthened voting rights into the State Constitution. Oh, all that was in 2018, but in 2020 we flipped the State Supreme Court, yay!
The GQP is battling mightily to restrict our right to vote. Gee, I wonder why?!?