Overview
- Certified results list Adam Alharbi with 2,066 votes to Muhith Mahmood’s 2,060, finalizing a six-vote margin.
- Roughly 120 absentee ballots were cured and added during the canvass, while 37 discovered in the clerk’s office went uncounted due to a broken chain of custody.
- Hamtramck City Clerk Rana Faraj was placed on leave after the discovery of the 37 ballots, according to officials and meeting testimony.
- A recount can be sought within 48 hours of certification, and Mahmood’s team is requesting one by the end of the week, local reporters said.
- Alharbi’s attorney reported filing an FBI complaint, and state election authorities have been notified as county officials noted four of five absentee precincts did not balance.