Michigan’s Wayne County Certifies Election Results After Initial Deadlock

A worker with the Detroit Department of Elections carries empty boxes used to organize absentee ballots after nearing the end of the absentee ballot count at the Central Counting Board in the TCF Center in Detroit, Mich., on Nov. 4, 2020. Elaine Cromie/Getty Images

Michigan’s most populous county reversed course on Nov. 17 and unanimously certified its Nov. 3 election results, shortly after two GOP members of Michigan’s Wayne County Board of Canvassers cast a vote against the move which resulted in a deadlocked 2-2 vote.

The unanimous vote to certify the results came on the condition that the secretary of state’s office conduct a comprehensive audit of the unexplained precincts across the county.