The discrepancies in Leelanau County’s unofficial election results were not caused by a computer error, according to county Clerk Michelle Crocker. Between Election Day and Nov. 8, the unofficial results were updated to include over 3,100 ballots that were not counted, changing the results of several races.
Instead of including 3,156 early inperson voting ballots, the clerk’s office inadvertently reported just under 1,600 sample ballots from an Oct. 17 elections accuracy in their Statement of Votes Cast, Crocker said. The sample ballots have been replaced with actual votes on the unofficial election results webpage as of Friday.
“I still have total faith in the election process. There is no conspiracy going on here. This shows that the process works,” Crocker said. “The canvassers … saw where they didn’t line it up. That is their job: to find exactly what they found.”
