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Reuters Exclusive: Trump-backed Michigan attorney general candidate involved in voting-system breach, documents show
Detroit News – Nessel’s office seeks special prosecutor in election ‘conspiracy’ probe of DePerno, others
Reuters – “Exclusive: Michigan widens probe into voting system breaches by Trump allies”
Michigan Live – State Police expand investigation into alleged voting machine tampering after 2020 election
Organizations Taking Action: Promote the Vote MI, ACLU Michigan, Voters Not Politicians
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An update on a story we brought you in June. Michigan’s current Attorney General has been investigating voting machine tampering in four townships by groups attempting to turn up evidence of voter fraud in the 2020 election. Turns out, the 2022 GOP nominee for Attorney General allegedly led at least one of the groups.
Reuters and Michigan Live had reported in June that search warrants were issued and town clerks interviewed by investigators in 11 townships in several counties. In an attempt to find evidence which corroborated President Trump’s false claims of voter fraud, unauthorized third parties were allowed to examine voting machines. At least five other vote tabulators were taken away to hotels in Oakland County where they were broken into by four individuals who have now been identified.
In an update on August 8, Reuters has evidence that the Trump-endorsed candidate for Michigan Attorney General, Matthew DePerno, led a group which examined a vote tabulating machine from Richfield Township, a small conservative-leaning town in Roscommon County. It is a felony under Michigan law to seek or provide unauthorized access to voting equipment.
The Detroit News reports that current Attorney General Dana Nessel will likely face DePerno in November, so she has called for a special prosecutor to pursue what she called a conspiracy to gain unauthorized access to the machines.
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