The American Democracy Minute Radio Report & Podcast for Aug. 3, 2023

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Eclipsed by Tuesday’s news of former President Trump’s indictment for his involvement in the attempted overturning of the 2020 election was an arraignment of two of nine of his supporters who allegedly tampered with voting machines in Michigan.

The indicted are not ordinary suspects.  Attorney Matt DePerno ran for Michigan Attorney General in 2022, and Daire Rendon is a former state representative who stepped down at the end of 2022.  The Michigan Advance reports that DePerno was arraigned on four charges:  Unauthorized access to official computers, conspiracy to commit undue possession of a voting machine, and undue possession of a voting machine.  Rendon was arraigned on conspiracy to commit undue possession of a voting machine, and false pretenses.

The nine suspects were investigated for taking five Dominion ballot tabulators from five Michigan counties to a hotel room outside Detroit in an attempt to prove the President’s claims of voter fraud.  Other townships refused access.  Bridge Michigan reports that another suspect, attorney Stephanie Lambert, said in a podcast interview that she expects to be indicted shortly.  

Attorney General Dana Nessel said in a statement after the indictments: “Furthermore, every officeholder, including local clerks, sheriffs, and legislators, should be expected to uphold and abide by the law. Our democracy simply cannot survive further attacks from within these essential offices of local, county and state government.”

We have more on the Michigan indictments at AmericanDemocracyMinute.org.   I’m Brian Beihl.

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Articles & Resources:
Reuters – (2022)  Michigan widens probe into voting system breaches by Trump allies
Bridge Michigan – Judge paves way for charges in Michigan vote machine tampering probe
Michigan Advance – Republicans Matt DePerno and Daire Rendon charged in 2020 voting machine probe
Bridge Michigan – ‘I have been indicted,’ says suspect in Michigan vote machine tampering probe
PBS – Security footage shows Georgia county Republican chair, election official present during breach of voting equipment
MI Office of Attorney General – Attorney General Nessel Releases Statement on Tabulator Access Indictments

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The American Democracy Minute Radio Report & Podcast for July 21, 2023

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While former President Donald Trump awaits a likely indictment for his role in an attempt to overturn the 2020 election, we’re in Michigan, where two related cases involving alleged fake electors and voting machine tampering are moving forward.

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel charged 16 alleged “fake electors,” who Nessel said in a statement were part of an “organized effort to circumvent the lawfully cast ballots of millions of Michigan voters in a presidential election.” 

The alleged participants are charged with one or more counts of Conspiracy to Commit Forgery, Forgery, Election Law Forgery and other felonies.  Some carry penalties of up to 14 years in prison.  

The Michigan Advance reports that those charged include the co-chair of the Michigan GOP, the mayor of Wyoming, MI, a co-founder of the Michigan Conservative Coalition, and several county and state candidates and committee members.  The false documents were allegedly signed in the basement of the Michigan GOP headquarters before being submitted to the U.S. Senate and National Archives as genuine. 

Bridge Michigan reports that July 12th, an Oakland County judge ruled that a special prosecutor may move forward with a voting machine tampering case involving a 2022 candidate for Michigan Attorney General, Matt Deperno, a former state representative and others.  The suspects allegedly took Dominion ballot tabulating machines to a hotel room to find evidence of voter fraud.  

We have more at AmericanDemocracyMinute.org.  I’m Brian Beihl.

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Articles & Resources:
Michigan Department of Attorney General – Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel Charges 16 ‘False Electors’ with Election Law and Forgery Felonies
Michigan Advance – 16 Michigan Republicans charged with felonies in 2020 fake elector scheme
Politico – Michigan AG charges 16 GOP activists who falsely claimed to be electors in bid to aid Trump
Bridge Michigan – Judge paves way for charges in Michigan vote machine tampering probe
Slate – Trump Was Implicated in a Vote Machine Theft. Why Isn’t DOJ Investigating?
American Oversight – AMERICAN OVERSIGHT OBTAINS SEVEN PHONY CERTIFICATES OF PRO-TRUMP ELECTORS

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The American Democracy Minute Radio Report & Podcast for December 2, 2022

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Articles & Resources:

Reuters – Republicans in one Arizona county refuse to certify election results
Democracy Docket – Arizona Secretary of State Sues Cochise County for Failing to Canvass Election Results
Democracy Docket – Cochise County, Arizona Attempts Another Hand Count
NPR – Counties in Arizona, Pennsylvania fail to certify election results by legal deadlines
National Review – Apparently, No Lawyer Wants to Defend Cochise County’s Refusal to Certify Election Results
Associated Press – 100% ballot hand-count blocked; Arizona county plowing ahead

Groups Taking Action:

 Arizona Alliance for Retired Americans,  All Voting is Local

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November 28th, an Arizona county board of supervisors refused to certify the November 8th election, defying the state’s deadline and inviting litigation.  

Reuters reports that two of the three county supervisors refused to certify, saying they wanted to hear more from residents claiming that the county’s optical ballot vote tabulators were not properly certified before the election.   Arizona’s Secretary of State’s office responded with supporting documents on the voting machines, and has now filed a lawsuit against the county to compel them to certify the election.

In the filing, the Secretary of State’s office said the County Commission was pointing to unfounded allegations about “ the testing, certification, and accreditation of electronic voting equipment” that serve to “sow further confusion and doubt about the integrity of Arizona’s election system.”

But wait, there’s more.  In October, the county commission had voted to hand count the November 8th election, but the Secretary of State, and the county attorney warned against it.  Then on November 7th, an Arizona judge ruled that Arizona law wouldn’t allow a hand-only count.  Despite that ruling, now that the election is done, the same two county commissioners are suing their own elections director to compel her to hand count the entire vote.

Electronic tabulating of ballots has been shown to be more accurate, faster, and less costly than hand tabulation.

We have articles about the chaos in Cochise County at  AmericanDemocracyMinute.org.  For the American Democracy Minute, I’m Brian Beihl.

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Articles:
Atlanta Journal Constitution – Special grand jury seeks evidence of Coffee Co. election breach
Washington Post – Trump-allied lawyers pursued voting machine data in multiple states, records reveal
Reuters – Michigan sheriff sought to seize multiple voting machines, records show
Business Insider – Sidney Powell and other Trump attorneys oversaw effort to copy sensitive election data in 3 states, per reports

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The apparent conspiracy in Michigan to seize and break into vote tabulating machines is widening. Last week, a grand jury was empaneled to examine similar allegations in Georgia.

In Michigan, politicians, lawyers and even a county sheriff allegedly used their influence to take Dominion Voting Systems vote tabulators to an off-site location and break into them seeking evidence of widespread fraud in the 2020 election.

The Washington Post has since reported that there is evidence of payments made to contractors by Sidney Powell and Trump’s legal team to run an unofficial examination of vote tabulating machines in Michigan, Nevada and Georgia.

The Atlanta Journal Constitution now reports that a 23-member special grand jury has issued a subpoena for communications between Powell and another Trump attorney with an IT contractor in Georgia who was hired to unofficially examine voting machines. The subpoena includes requests for records related to activity in Coffee County, Georgia, and Antrim County, Michigan.

An earlier election security lawsuit revealed that employees from the contractor, SullivanStrickler, copied the voting memory cards of ballot scanners and an election server, then allegedly shared the records with Powell, Trump campaign staff, and “Stop the Steal” activist groups.

As this alleged conspiracy unfolds, we will keep you updated. Find a link to the Washington Post reporting, and an Atlanta Journal Constitution article which includes a “who’s who” of the Georgia investigation, at AmericanDemocracyMinute.org.

For the American Democracy Minute, I’m Brian Beihl.

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Articles:   
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.  

Articles and groups taking action are at AmericanDemocracyMinute.org.

Granny D said Democracy is not something we have, it’s something we DO.   

For the American Democracy Minute, I’m Brian Beihl.

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