The American Democracy Minute Radio Report & Podcast for March 18, 2024
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We reported extensively last year on the alleged tampering of electronic vote tabulators in Michigan following the 2020 election. The first of three trials is imminent, but after failing to appear at multiple court hearings, one election-denier defendant faces even more charges.
Reuters reports that Stephanie Lambert Junttila was part of a team of lawyers connected to Sidney Powell, who led former President Trump’s court challenges of the 2020 Presidential election results. She was allegedly in the room when Matthew DePerno, a candidate for Michigan attorney general, and Daire Rendon, a Michigan state representative, attempted to access the data in a Dominion Voting Systems electronic ballot tabulator in a suburban Detroit hotel room. The three were charged with conspiracy and unlawful possession of a voting machine last August.
Trials were originally scheduled for early March. But according to the Michigan Advance, Lambert Junttila, failed to appear for two pre-trial hearings, and an Oakland County judge issued an arrest warrant March 8th. Reuters later reported that March 13th, while under indictment and subject to an arrest warrant, she was in a Washington, D.C. courtroom, representing former Overstock.com CEO Patrick Byrne against Dominion Voting Systems’ $1.6 Billion dollar defamation lawsuit. Dominion sued Byrne for allegedly pushing the debunked theory that Dominion’s ballot tabulators had manipulated the election for Joe Biden.
Lambert Junttila’s trial is scheduled to begin April 1st.
We have more at AmericanDemocracyMinute.org. I’m Brian Beihl.
Today’s Links
Articles & Resources:
Reuters – (2022) The Michigan lawyer pushing Trump’s voter-fraud fictions in U.S. courts
Michigan Advance – (2023) Republicans Matt DePerno and Daire Rendon charged in 2020 voting machine probe
Michigan Advance – Judge sets March trial date in Michigan voting machine tampering case
Michigan Advance – One voting machine tampering cases moves to trial, two others await consideration
Michigan Advance – Warrant for Lambert Junttila remains as she misses another hearing in tabulator tampering case
Reuters – Ex-Overstock CEO taps indicted pro-Trump lawyer as defense counsel in Dominion lawsuit
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