Credit Steve Carmody / Michigan Radio Antrim County Clerk Sheryl Guy said in a statement Monday that ballots in the county’s local elections next month will be counted electronically, despite a vote by the county board of commissioners that would have required them to be counted by hand. Guy said state law requires the ballots to be counted by machine, and the board of commissioners has no power to mandate hand-counting “The County Board of Commissioners does not have the authority to determine which voting system to use in Antrim County,” Guy said. The dispute arose after Guy did not update some voting machines before the election, leading some ballots for Donald Trump to be incorrectly counted for Joe Biden. Before the election results were certified, Guy said, observers recognized the error and assigned the ballots to the correct candidates.