Trump lost in 2016: 1,913,369 Ballots Thrown Away.

It's not who votes that counts, it's who counts the votes that counts.
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It’s official:  1,913,369 ballots were cast but never counted in the 2016 presidential race.  That’s from the US Elections Assistance Commission.

And not just anyone’s ballot gets tossed into the electoral dumpster.   The US Civil Rights Commission took a look at Florida’s throw-away pile and calculated that your chance of having your vote simply go uncounted, “spoiled,” is 900% higher if you're black than if you're white.

Here’s what you know: In 2016, Donald Trump won Michigan by 10,704 votes. Officially.

Here’s what you don’t know: 75,355 ballots were never counted. That’s official, too. Just “spoilage,” that is, ballots that were, for some technical reason, untallied.

But not just anyone’s vote “spoiled.” Most of these vanished votes were cast in Detroit—where only one in ten city residents are white. Motown. Not exactly Trump-ville.