In Leelanau County, a vote reporting error skewed appearance of unofficial results

In the hours after the polls closed on Election Day, Leelanau County’s website started to show unofficial results from the races. When they were called, it looked as though Democrats had won in several local races.

But what the website showed was wrong, because over 3,000 votes did not initially get uploaded to Leelanau County’s website.

The county Board of Canvassers caught the discrepancy between what showed up on the website and paper records from voting machines when it was verifying the election results last week.

The Leelanau County Clerk fixed the error on Friday.

It’s now likely that a number of local races which Democrats initially appeared to win will flip to Republican candidates, including races for drain commissioner and county commissioners.



https://michiganadvance.com/2024/11/13/in-leelanau-county-a-vote-reporting-error-skewed-appearance-of-unofficial-results/