Michigan AG claims wins in ongoing presidential election fraud cases
Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel’s Office claimed victories in two separate court rulings Monday related to unresolved election fraud lawsuits.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that it won’t expedite the hearing of a federal lawsuit filed by President Donald Trump voters against Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, the city of Detroit and others related to unfounded election fraud claims.
“The Supreme Court’s decision put another nail in the coffin on the bogus claims of widespread fraud in Michigan’s election,” Nessel said following the decision Monday.
The second ruling involves a motion filed in a state lawsuit by attorneys for William Bailey of Central Lake in Antrim County, who claims Dominion Voting Systems ballot tabulation machines contributed to inaccurate and potentially corrupted election results.
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Judge Kevin Elsenheimer of the 13th Circuit Court in Antrim County on Dec. 6 granted Bailey permission to further analyze the county’s 22 tabulation machines. Bailey and his counsel then requested the identities of their selected analysts be withheld from the public. Elsenheimer denied that request, according to the AG’s Office.
Antrim County’s failure to properly update its Dominion voting software initially resulted in incorrect reports of unofficial results, but the error was captured and corrected within two days.
Once it was realized the totals generated by the county-level software didn’t match the precinct results, Antrim County Clerk Sheryl Guy, a Republican, said she and her staff manually reentered results from about 30 feet of printout “tapes” from each of her 16 precincts and 15 townships.
The county later performed a hand recount that identified 12 more votes for Trump, about .07% of the total votes cast.
Trump and his supporters used the Antrim County error to perpetuate broader, dubious claims of a Democratic conspiracy and fraud intended to steal the election from Trump.
“The erroneous reporting of unofficial results from Antrim county was a result of accidental error on the part of the Antrim County clerk,” Benson’s office said. “The equipment and software did not malfunction and all ballots were properly tabulated. However, the clerk accidentally did not update the software used to collect voting machine data and report unofficial results.”
Trump and his supporters have frequently pointed to Dominion Voting Systems machines, which are used widely in Michigan and across the nation, as a possible source of election fraud, although there is no evidence to support the claims.
Iowa University Professor Douglas W. Jones, who’s worked with election software for a quarter century, told MLive most election software is often lacking in sophistication and could be improved to catch human error more efficiently, but he hadn’t seen any evidence to support claims of corruption.
Trump began claiming election fraud on a large scale well before initial votes were tabulated, claims that have led to countless failed or dismissed lawsuits across Michigan and the nation.
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