Detroit elections officials waited several days to deliver nearly 100 poll books to Wayne County officials charged with certifying the presidential election, newly released documents show.
County clerk officials on Thursday released a memo to State Elections Director Chris Thomas that said 95 poll books from the 662 precincts weren’t available at the start of the canvass, which began the day after the Nov. 8 election. Five of those poll books, which contain the names of voters and ensure the integrity of elections, were never delivered to county canvassers and presumably remain missing.
Canvassers compare poll books with printouts from voting machines to ensure the number of people who signed in to vote match the number of ballots cast.
The revelation comes atop other irregularities that have prompted a state audit. Among other issues, The Detroit News reported this week that voting machines registered more votes than they should have in one-third of all city precincts.
“I’m not happy with how Detroit handled this election at all,” said Krista Hartounian, chairwoman of the Wayne County Board of Canvassers, which certified the election. “We had been seeing improvement, but this one was different. This one was off.”
Hartounian said Detroit officials were still delivering poll books to canvassers on the Friday and Saturday after the Tuesday election. By law, the canvassers have 14 days to certify general elections.
“The canvass was extremely pressed for time,” Hartounian said. “There was so much pressure. It was so tight, and Detroit was still delivering information until the very end.”
The memo from county elections official Jennifer Redmond to the state also shows poll books in 101 Detroit precincts were not delivered in sealed envelopes, as the law requires. Separate county documents obtained by The News show that poll books in 17 precincts were missing seal numbers from ballot boxes, as is required by state law.
Detroit Clerk Janice Winfrey and city elections director Daniel Baxter did not return several messages seeking comment.
Last week, Baxter placed much of the blame on what he called outdated, decade-old voting machines, saying 87 broke on Election Day. The city had a two-page ballot, and frequent jams led to inaccurate counts when workers failed to reset counters, he said.
A Detroit News analysis of statewide recount tallies, however, found other counties that used the same optical scanner performed just fine. In fact, the counties that used the machine, the Election Systems & Software M100, had fewer unrecountable precincts than those who used two other voting machines in Michigan.
The M100s, which are used in 55 percent of Michigan’s precincts, have a spotty reputation. In 2008, then-Oakland County Clerk Ruth Johnson, who is now secretary of state, urged federal officials to investigate after the optical scanners improperly counted 8 percent of ballots during testing. Gisgie Gendreau, a spokeswoman for Johnson’s office, said in an email the secretary of state is confident in the accuracy of the M100 voting machines used in Detroit and other parts of the state “assuming they are properly coded for the particular election.”
There were fewer than 30 machines that required Election Day maintenance, she said. The department pays for half of the maintenance costs in Detroit and other jurisdictions with electronic poll books.
State Rep. Fred Durhal III, D-Detroit, said the state “has a responsibility to take a closer look” at Detroit.
“If you have faulty equipment, it can definitely cause an issue in Detroit, because you’re counting more votes than any other city,” said Durhal, who pushed for more funding for new voting machines. “I don’t think fraud is involved, I want to make that clear, but I think we’ve got to get to the bottom of what happened.”
It’s unclear how many extra votes were counted in Detroit. That’s because tallies were off by five or more votes in 52 Detroit precincts, but county officials will not release the exact number of discrepancies in each precinct. The News has filed a Freedom of Information Act request for the information.
CINCINNATI; The surgeon who created the life-saving Heimlich maneuver for choking victims has died.
Dr. Henry Heimlich died early Saturday at Christ Hospital in Cincinnati. He was 96. His son, Phil, says he suffered a heart attack earlier in the week.
Heimlich was director of surgery at Jewish Hospital in Cincinnati in 1974 when he devised the treatment for choking victims that made his name a household word.
Rescuers using the procedure abruptly squeeze a victim's abdomen, pushing in and above the navel with the fist to create a flow of air from the lungs. That flow of air then can push objects out of the windpipe and prevent suffocation.
The Wilmington, Delaware, native estimated the maneuver had saved the lives of thousands of choking victims in the United States alone. But you gotta know how to do it right. A young body builder guy was choking in a cafeteria and several people tried the maneuver and failed. As the victim was about to pass out from lack of oxygen, I got behind him and slammed both of my fists above his navel like I was in a fist fight trying to knock the wind out of someone, and a big piece of roast beef went flying through the air from his throat. He lived. Don't be gentle when using the maneuver to save a life.
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I was in a writing group with his wife, Jane Murray Heimlich, who died a few years ago. She was a quiet soul whose writing touched the core of things -- exactly not what one would expect from one of the twin daughters of Arthur Murray, the ballroom dance king.
[Breitbart London] As gun sales have skyrocketed over the past 19 months, ammunition sales have also surged, with "17,850 tons" of imported ammunition being sold in the past 12 months.
That is nearly 18,000 tons of ammo in a year’s time and approximately "2,865 tons of bullets" that were imported in November alone.
CNN Money pointed to figures from research firm Panjiva, which show ammunition imports for last month were up 200% over where they were a year ago. Panjiva’s Chris Rogers said, "It’s very unusual in an import industry like this to see such a big move. It tells you that there’s a customer demand that’s not being met by U.S. manufacturers."
Panjiva identifies the top foreign importer as "Poongsan Corp." of South Korea. "Fiocchi Munizioni of Italy and Prvi Partizan of Serbia" are next in line, as far as foreign ammunition importers go. I didn't buy any Russian made ammunition at all this whole calendar year. At 3,000 rounds, I felt like I didn't have to.
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So, she's like a moped, can be fun to ride but you don't want your friends to see you on it.
She's going to be Barbie in the eponymous movie. Actually you could make about 2176 Barbies out of her.
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An exercise in creative writing for the Daily Mail staffers assigned this story. Beyond that, she is of the Junoesque type often seen on beaches nowadays, a type not best suited to bikinis, it seems to me, but prefered by some men to the currently fashionable ectomorphs and mesomorphs.
Took all of five minutes
[DeutscheWelle] A regional court in Germany on Thursday ruled that a Peruvian farmer's lawsuit seeking damages for melting glaciers at his Andean home is unfounded. Those behind the lawsuit see the ruling as the start of a long fight. with increasing Attorney's fees...of course. Soros? The delivery of judgment took all of five minutes: The judge announced to the packed courtroom that the court had rejected the suit of the Peruvian farmer Saúl Luciano Lliuya. His claim that German energy company RWE must take responsibility for his fate, and that of his town of Huaraz, is unfounded and invalid, the judge said.
Peruvian Lliuya was the first in Europe to sue an alleged perpetrator of climate change in civil court. The farmer and mountain guide sees his home and that of 50,000 others threatened by a melting glacier and possible flood, propelled by climate change.
RWE, the largest single emitter of CO2 in the world, is jointly responsible for this, Lliuya says. RWE continues to run some of the largest coal operations in Europe, including Hambach and Garzweiler strip mines.
The court ruled on December 16, 2016, that the connection between Lliuyas situation and RWE is at most a scientific one - but not legally verifiable. The energy giant can not be held individually liable for the threat of a flood in Peru, the ruling continued.
Lliuya's lawyer Roda Verheyen was disappointed - but remained determined. "I think that the court did not delve in deep enough," she said after the ruling. *snort*
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Impressive photos. Don't know whether to feel bad for the photog that he had to go to Buzzfeed to get his work published or to hope that maybe Buzzfeed is growing up. Nah. It's not that second thing...
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"The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down
Of the big lake they call Gitche Gumee
The lake, it is said, never gives up her dead
When the skies of November turn gloomy"
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Surf's up!
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Instead of lavishly spending on his daughter’s wedding, a wealthy Indian businessman has parted with tradition and chosen to donate to the poor.
Ajay Munot, a wholesale trader of wheat and cloth in eastern India, has donated 90 houses to homeless people in an effort to help the region’s underprivileged, according to local news site Free Press Journal.
Munot gave the go ahead for the construction of 90 houses on two acres of land. He also chose the people who would be granted the new homes.
"Each home is 12 by 20 square foot ... It has two windows, two doors, light fitting and painted," the site reported.
Munot’s daughter has reportedly said she fully supports her father’s decision and labelled it the "biggest gift" on the occasion of her wedding.
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[Liberty Alliance] With the left’s newest war cry of "fake news" now always at the ready to deploy as a weapon to quash any right of center news outlet, Facebook has announced that it will use three left-of-center organizations to "review" conservative sites to see if they are producing "fake news."
So, what could go wrong? Plenty.
Facebook insists it is doing its part to torpedo those "fake news" sites that so many liberals claim gave Trump the White House. But this is all just a smoke screen.
In fact, this effort has nothing whatever to do with making sure "news" is truthful. All it really is, is just another attempt by liberals to re-instate their once indisputable status as the "gatekeepers" of the media, an assumption that created a screening process through which only their approved, liberal "news" could get past. It was this "gatekeeping" wall that caused the loss of Vietnam, for instance, as the entirety of the liberal media lied to Americans that the war was lost and the U.S. should get out of Vietnam despite that the U.S. military won nearly every engagement it ever entered into during that conflict.
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Politi'Fact' and 'Fact'Check.org are absolute fucking garbage; too bad Snopes fell into the left-wing rut the past four years or so. Just another reason to temper my Facebook intake to the bare minimum.
[Reuters] Richard Bunce says he felt sick when voters decided to take Britain out of the European Union in June, forcing him into a emergency review of his firm's expansion plans.
But six months on, orders are strong and a new growth plan is in place, according to Bunce, managing director of Mec Com Ltd which sells devices to protect against power surges to clients such as Siemens (SIEGn.DE) and Alstom (ALSO.PA).
Far from the "profound and immediate economic shock" predicted by Britain's finance ministry in the event of a vote for Brexit, the economy has, so far, barely slowed. Bunce expects tougher times. But like many other executives trying to push their Brexit worries to one side, he invested - nearly half a million pounds on a new laser-cutting machine over the summer.
Now he plans to spend another 750,000 pounds ($932,000) on robotic metal-working equipment at Mec Com's plant near Stafford, a town 135 miles (217 km) northwest of London, after landing a big contract with a British food processing firm.
"We believe that the opportunities we have got will, one way or another, find a way around Brexit," Bunce said.
To be sure, what Brexit means is far from clear. Britain is due to begin its two-year divorce process with the EU early next year. Agreeing its new relationship could take a lot longer. Bunce is taking precautions in case his firm ends up facing tariffs on its exports to the EU. He recently traveled to Romania to discuss the possibility of expanding his company's existing unit there in the event of a "hard" Brexit.
"If that happens then we would need to find a way to switch very quickly, but as things stand we are planning for more UK business," he said.
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Max WTO tariffs are 4% which is vastly less than the costs of being in the EUSSR
UK buy more than it exports so tariffs would hurt EUSSR more than UK.
MIAMI - Human rights lawyer Kimberley Motley was arrested in Havana, Cuba on Friday, according to the Human Rights Foundation.
Motley, a mother of three, was in Havana advocating for artist Danilo "El Sexto" Maldonado, 33, who was arrested Nov. 26, according to his mother and his fiancée Alexandra Martinez.
When Motley was arrested, police officers also arrested punk rock artist Gorki Aguila and Luis Alberto Mariño, a political activist from the group Cuba Decides, according to the Human Rights Foundation.
Motley, a former Milwaukee public defender, started her career as an international litigator when she joined a U.S. Justice Department program to train lawyers in Afghanistan.
North Korea early this month conducted a land test of a submarine-launched ballistic missile, Washington has confirmed according to Japanese media on Thursday. The test was reportedly aimed at perfecting cold-launch technology.
Cold launch is an advanced method of igniting the missile after it has been expelled from the water. The North probably conducted the test on land to improve the success rate.
In August, the North succeeded in extending the range of sub-launched missiles to an estimated 500 km.
Washington is stepping up surveillance because it fears that the North is close to deploying the missiles warfare-ready, NHK reported. Launches would be enormously difficult to detect and could happen close to South Korean waters, giving Seoul and Washington very little time to intercept the missiles.
Meanwhile, a North Korean submarine was destroyed in North Korean waters in April and 12 crewmembers on board killed, the Tokyo Shimbun reported. The cause is unknown.
But the North conducted an SLMB launch test shortly afterwards, suggesting that the sub broke up in the attempt to launch a missile. The daily quoted a North Korean official as saying, "People's lives are worthless in the eyes of Kim Jong-un. Nuclear weapons are much more important to him."
The South Korean military declined to confirm the report.
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The North probably conducted the test on land to improve the success rate.
In other news..."NKor nears solution to submarine screen door phenomena"
[BREITBART] On Friday’s broadcast of CNN’s "AC360," CNN Political Commentator Angela Rye stated that "Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... ’s election, in my mind, is far from legitimate."
Rye said, "Donald Trump’s election, in my mind, is far from legitimate, at this point. I have every issue with the world that the fact that Hillary Clinton ... former first lady, former secretary of state, former presidential candidate, sometimes described by her supporters as the smartest woman in the world, usually described by the rest of us as a crook... gets closer and closer every day to three million vote -- to a three million vote lead against Donald Trump. I have every issue in the world with the fact that electors feel like they can’t, in some instances, in good conscience, support this man as president. I have every issue in the world with the fact that the intelligence community is questioning the legacy of legitimacy of this election. If someone can hack into, not just our process ‐."
She added, "I do not believe this is legitimate, for a lot of reasons, including the fact that the intelligence community says that our electoral process was tampered with. ... I have every issue with the Electoral College, and I have since before this election. It does not speak for me. I am not supporting a system that was built on the backs of my ancestors who were slaves. I’m not here for it. ... That guy is not my president."
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So he is renouncing his citizenship. Cool, seize all his assets and deport him.
You know, I post pretty much anything I damn well choose to, both here and at a half-dozen other sites.
And yet for the last 8 HORRIBLE YEARS this country has endured under what amounts to little less than foreign rule, the phrase "That guy is not my President" has never left my keyboard, nor my lips.
Fuck Angela Rye, fuck her employer for not firing her immediately, and fuck anyone who takes a twit like that seriously.
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Not really civil war. Clinton's popular vote advantage is 2.8 million. But, as IBD notes, Her Caliphornia lead is 4.3 million. Thus she lost the other 49 by 1.5 million. What we have is a Caliphornia problem.
"An owner of a propane dealership in Maine is refusing to deliver gas to anyone who voted for President-elect Donald Trump.
Michael Turner, owner of Turner LP Gas in Skowhegan, Maine, recorded a voice mail greeting that leaves little question as to his feelings for those in his community who supported Trump.
'Thank you for calling Turner LP gas. If you voted for Donald Trump for president I will no longer be delivering your gas ‐ please find someone else,' the message states." Pi$$ing in his rice bowl. Not a Wharton grad, I'll wager.
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I don't know what the big deal is, I've stopped doing business with lots of people who openly announced that my money is not green enough for them. Ever stood in line at the firearms counter in a Cabela's? Talk about wasting time...
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[DAWN] LAHORE: Two security guards of the Mayo Hospital
...not the one in Rochester Minnesota, nor the one in Jacksonville, Florida, nor the one in Phoenix, Arizona...
Not cargo cult hospital naming -- I looked it up. Ours are named after Dr. William W. Mayo, who settled in Rochester, MN in 1864 and opened up a medical practice, expanded subsequently by his sons; by one ranking it is the top hospital in the the United States.Theirs was named after the then-Viceroy of India, a certain 6th Earl of Mayo, in 1871; the attached university is Pakistan's most prestigious.
Ask any graduate of a Pakistani medical school -- theirs is the one that was most prestigious in all the land...
were maimed in a clash with coppers at the emergency ward of the infirmary in the wee hours of Saturday.
A duty doctor said the coppers had brought one of their injured colleagues to the ward. "The patient was being examined when around a dozen coppers reached there and started making calls to their colleagues, causing inconvenience to other patients as well. The guards were asked to take them away as according to the SOP, only one attendant is allowed with a patient at the emergency ward."
Shahid, one of the injured guards, said the coppers were politely asked to leave the ward but they got infuriated and pushed him.
Another guard came to the rescue of Shahid but the coppers attacked him with fists and kicks. Other guards deputed outside the emergency and nearby wards also reached there and a scuffle ensued.
The hospital administration, on being informed about the situation, acted swiftly and approached some senior police officer who asked the cops to leave the place.
Mayo Chief Executive Officer Prof Dr Asad Aslam said a complaint had been lodged against the coppers involved in the brawl.
An official at the Gowalmandi cop shoppe said some of the suspects had been taken into custody.
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And then there's the Mayo Clinic in Mayo. Not far from Shands. Pay by pig is still an option.
Marketing crap cut. Edited for length.
Northrop Grumman has successfully completed the first flight of an E-2D Advanced Hawkeye equipped with aerial refueling.
Under a 2013 engineering, manufacturing, and development (EMD) contract award, Northrop Grumman designed, developed, manufactured, and tested several sub-system upgrades necessary to accommodate an aerial refueling capability.
The aerial refueling capability will allow the E-2D to provide longer on-station times at greater ranges, extending its mission time to better support the warfighter. The upgrades installed to support aerial refueling include probe and associated piping, electrical and lighting upgrades, and long endurance seats that will enhance field of view in the cockpit and reduce fatigue over longer missions.
The aerial refueling program will modify three aircraft for testing planned through 2018. Production cut-in and retrofit plans are scheduled to begin in 2018.
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Wait a minute. Been around since the late 50s and still useful? Somebody at DOD was asleep...
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haskeyes aint as sexy as the pointy nosed go fasters, so they likely just hummed along under the radar. they even hung an ifr probe on the C-2 once.
No, really. [ABS-CBN] Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte on Saturday delivered a Christmas message to Filipinos, extending it even to Abu Sayyaf terrorists, communists and Moros.
"I'd like to greet everybody, the communists, Abu Sayyaf, lahat sila in behalf sa taong Pilipino, I greet everybody a merry Christmas and a prosperous new year for all," he said during a trip to a military headquarters in Zamboanga City to visit injured soldiers.
"I'd like to greet everybody lahat na, to the Filipino people, the law-abiding and of course if they find it in their hearts, though this is not really something for the Moro but you know that this kind of events are closest to the hearts of Christians (that) we can have a peaceful Christmas."
The president also called for a truce during the holidays and extended a dinner invitation to Abu Sayyaf militants who will pass by Davao City. He said, "Nakikiusap ako sa lahat na we'll have a peaceful Christmas. Maybe we can resume fighting some other day."
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[TR] America's beloved eugenicist Margaret Sanger will be getting her own movie based on the novel about her rise to become the founder of Planned Parenthood, America's abortion conglomerate that now receives $500 million a year in federal funds.
According to Deadline Hollywood, the film will be based on Ellen Feldman’s novel Terrible Virtue and will be produced by Black Bicycle Entertainment and producer Justine Ciarrochhi.
Terrible Virtue focuses on Sanger as the daughter of a hard-drinking, smooth-tongued free thinker and mother worn down by 13 children, who vowed her life would be different. Following Sanger’s training as a nurse, her work alongside labor organizers, anarchists, socialists and other progressives and eventually her devotion to the cause of legalizing contraception, the film examines the risks she took and the impact she had that lasts to the present day.
Terrible Virtue referred to Sanger as a "complex, enigmatic revolutionary" in the description on the book's back cover:
This complex, enigmatic revolutionary was at once vain and charismatic, generous and ruthless, sexually impulsive and coolly calculating--a competitive, self-centered woman who championed all women, a conflicted mother who suffered the worst tragedy a parent can experience. From opening the first illegal birth control clinic in America in 1916 through the founding of Planned Parenthood to the arrival of the Pill in the 1960s, Margaret Sanger sacrificed two husbands, three children, and scores of lovers in her fight for sexual equality and freedom.
Planned Parenthood now performs 300,000 abortions per year in the United States.
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In a December 10, 1939 letter to Dr. Clarence Gamble of the Eugenics Society, in the context of discussing the Negro Project, which she developed in concert with white birth-control reformers, Sanger wrote: “We do not want word to get out that we want to exterminate the Negro population and the minister is the man who can straighten out the idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members.”
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
CINCINNATI; The surgeon who created the life-saving Heimlich maneuver for choking victims has died.
[Liberty Alliance] With the left’s newest war cry of "fake news" now always at the ready to deploy as a weapon to quash any right of center news outlet, Facebook has announced that it will use three left-of-center organizations to "review" conservative sites to see if they are producing "fake news."
[Reuters] Richard Bunce says he felt sick when voters decided to take Britain out of the European Union in June, forcing him into a emergency review of his firm's expansion plans.
North Korea early this month conducted a land test of a submarine-launched ballistic missile, Washington has confirmed according to Japanese media on Thursday. The test was reportedly aimed at perfecting cold-launch technology.
[BREITBART] On Friday’s broadcast of CNN’s "AC360," CNN Political Commentator Angela Rye stated that "
[ABS-CBN] Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte on Saturday delivered a Christmas message to Filipinos, extending it even to Abu Sayyaf terrorists, communists and Moros.
[TR] America's beloved eugenicist Margaret Sanger will be getting her own movie based on the novel about her rise to become the founder of Planned Parenthood, America's abortion conglomerate that now receives $500 million a year in federal funds. 
