I will link to the Detroit Free Press here
12:11 p.m.: Broken counting machine in Detroit
Voters at Precinct 18 on the Detroit's east side have reported that the machine used to count the ballots is broken. "I called the commission and they don't seem like they're even concerned," said voter Patricia Perry, who got to the precinct around 8:30 a.m."You don't know if your ballot is spoiled or what because the machine isn't working." Perry said the poll workers continued to have voters "stuff their ballots" into the machine, despite it being broken. "It was so full that one of the workers had to come in there with her key, open the machine, take the ballots out and put them down in the bottom of the box. Then they let the people keep stuffing them in there." Perry said the polling location was crowded with voters, who said they had tried to call the election department several times. – Katrease Stafford, Staff Writer
10:10 a.m. - Two hour delay in Detroit precinct
In Precinct 134 in Detroit’s West Village area, the machine that counts the ballots was not working from the very beginning of the morning, causing confusion and anger among voters. Workers at the precinct told voters they could either leave their ballot in a secure box below the machine for it to be counted later or wait for a technician to arrive to fix the machine. About 45 people, including Marilyn King, 62, of Detroit, decided to wait. Latricia Pritchett, 45, of Detroit, said experiences like this lead to lower voter turnout. “Some people don’t have transportation and do everything that they can to get here …and the process is already lengthy, so when you have to sit here and wait another hour just to insert your ballot it’s just ridiculous.” A technician arrived at 8:56 a.m. and workers began processing ballots about 10 minutes later. — Brent Snavely, Staff Writer
9:40 a.m.: 'Chaos' and 'total mess' near Detroit's west side
Lifelong Detroiter Lynnette Kelsey said in the dozens of years that she's voted, she's never encountered such a chaotic scene at her polling location. Kelsey said she woke up early to cast her ballot and arrived at Mackenzie Elementary-Middle School near Detroit's west side at 7:15 a.m. Kelsey, 57, said she didn't leave until more than an hour later. "It was a total mess there," Kelsey said. "It was just very unorganized and everyone was just squashed into the gym. If that happened at 7 a.m. this morning, I can only imagine by noon how that would be. It was just a very bad experience for me. I can see people leaving out and not wanting to deal with it." – Katrease Stafford, Staff Writer
I will try to add to this as events in Michigan seem to pop up.
Tuesday, Nov 8, 2016 · 7:27:43 PM +00:00 · Chitown Kev
Just talked to my cousin who lives in Detroit and he is reporting long lines in Precinct 158 in Detroit of up to two hours, possibly because of internet access issues.
States that he stood in line for ~1 hour and 40 minutes and that it was “very frustrating.”...lines going out the door. When he left the polling place , he said that ~150-200 people in line.
Tuesday, Nov 8, 2016 · 8:48:44 PM +00:00 · Chitown Kev
This from Mother Jones on an apparent attempt at voter intimidation in East Lansing, Michigan
A man in East Lansing, Michigan, attempted to prevent two women wearing hijabs from voting at their polling place on Tuesday morning in what the county clerk called an act of voter intimidation.
Ron Fox, who was also attempting to vote at East Lansing's Shaarey Zedek synagogue on Tuesday, described the incident to Mother Jones in an email.
I observed a man just outside the door to the polling place. He pulled two women wearing Hijabs out of line ahead of me. When I came level to him, he was examining their voter registration cards and appeared to be attempting to direct them to another polling place. He seemed polite but I did not like that he’d singled out those two women…When I finished voting, there were two polling officials that were asking him to leave. He was refusing. He then entered the polling place, presumably to attempt to obtain permission to remain.
Fox noted that election officials in Ingham County, where East Lansing is located, wear "identifying stickers," which the man did not have. "I would say that there was at least some profiling going on as the two women in question were the only ones he singled out while I was in line," he wrote. He also stressed that the man "seemed polite and non-confrontational."