Reply #30: Detroit City Clerk-requests a partial recount- too many mistakes

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Currie requests a partial recount

November 29, 2005

BY MARISOL BELLO

FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER




Jackie Currie: "I believe that some mistakes have taken place at several precincts." (ERIC SEALS/Free Press file photo)
Detroit City Clerk Jackie Currie, whose office was in charge of the November election, believes the process was so riddled with mistakes that she wants a recount of her own.

Currie, who was held in contempt for violating a judge's order, stripped of control of absentee ballots and scrutinized by federal investigators, asked Monday that the Wayne County Board of Canvassers recount 55 of the city's 720 precincts.

"It's sort of funny that she's hoping to get back into office on the basis that she made so many mistakes that you can't count on the results she released," said Mark Grebner of East Lansing-based Practical Political Consulting, a leading voter list company in the state. "This is a woman who is reluctant to eat her own cooking and probably for good reason."

The problems in Currie's office already are likely to cost the city upward of $500,000. A recount request filed by mayoral candidate Freman Hendrix last week is expected to cost $250,000 to $500,000. Requests by Currie and two other candidates are expected to add a six-figure sum to the tab.

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