DETROIT (AP) —
At least 31 people could face criminal charges after voting twice in Michigan in the fall election, an official said Thursday.
The agency's investigation followed
a partial statewide recount of the presidential race, which raised questions about the safeguarding of ballots in Detroit.
A judge stopped the recount after three days, although officials said it would not have changed President Donald Trump's slim victory in Michigan over Hillary Clinton.
Thomas also reported that 31 Michigan residents voted twice, first with an absentee ballot and then in person. Their names were turned over to the attorney general's office for possible prosecution.
Voting twice, or even attempting to do so, is a felony."It's not acceptable," Thomas said.
Fourteen of the 31 were in Detroit. Officials believe Detroit poll workers didn't catch the double votes because they weren't given an updated list of voters who had used an absentee ballot.
It's not known which candidate got the votes. Ballots are anonymous."There are processes in place to stop this. In these 31 cases, they didn't work," Thomas said.
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