Thursday afternoon, Hamtramck City Clerk Rana Faraj testified in front of the Wayne County Board of Canvassers about 37 missing absentee ballots.

The Hamtramck mayoral race separates the top candidates by just 11 votes.

The board of canvassers had a choice. They could vote to include the absentee ballots that weren't tabulated in the election or permanently reject those ballots.

Mayoral candidates Muhith Mahmood and front runner Adam Alharbi looked on as Faraj explained to the board of canvassers how the ballots were found in her office the day after the election.

She said on election night, her office received a call from the absentee voting board informing her there was a discrepancy. Faraj recalled the AV board said the number of ballots tabulated by the machines did not match the n

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