I heard that on Day 1 of the recount in Michigan they started finding that the number of ballots recorded on the precinct poll books did not match those from the voting machine printout reports. This apparently occurred in 59% of the precincts. Some of these discrepancies were relatively minor, and some not so incidental. I heard there was one incident where a sealed ballot box in Detroit indicated about 306 votes on the official election record count, but when opened it only contained 50 votes.
That's correct and the kahuna overseeing the election process in Wayne County stated that the voting machines were messed up and that sometimes the ballots had to be put through up to six times. (Hmm, 50 goes into 306 how many times?) He also said that the poll workers were supposed to subtract one from the count for each ballot put through multiple times but that they sometimes forgot. Riiight...
What was really curious is that he made no mention of the problems with the voting machines until the recount was started. Up until then everything was A-OK.
Bunch of corrupt bastards.
All voting in Michigan is done on paper ballots and read by machines that are not connected to the Internet. The type of nefarious activity alleged to have possibly occurred in Wisconsin could not have happened in MI. But we do now know that there were other means of rigging the vote going on.
For those wanting to recount the country to curtail fraud, how do you ensure that the most untrustworthy aspect of the entire process is kept in check? That aspect is the people overseeing the election itself. You're going to have to have a high degree of restoration of morals, scruples and a sense of what is right and what is wrong. We're light years away from that happening.
Until we can get an overwhelming majority to veer away from the 'end justifies the means' mentality we're stuck with what we get.