Clerks agree: Voter fraud not a factor in 2020 presidential election – Grosse Pointe News (subscription)

THE GROSSE POINTES — News that a Republican state Senate investigation didn’t find fraud in the 2020 Democrat presidential victory brought I-told-you-so’s from city clerks of the two largest Grosse Pointes.

“There was no fraud,” said Lisa Hathaway, clerk of Grosse Pointe Woods and past board member of the Michigan Association of Municipal Clerks. “The system worked. It’s foolproof, 100 percent.”

In Grosse Pointe Park, election operations of Clerk Jane Blahut hit a perfect score.

“Our city got audited by Wayne County and the state,” Blahut said. “They took every absentee ballot from two precincts, counted them and separated them by vote. We were 100 percent right-on.”

Sen. Ed McBroom, R-Waucedah, representing more than half of the western Upper Peninsula, chaired the Senate investigation of November’s election.

“There’s a small amount of imbalance in various poll books that could potentially be explained by fraud,” McBroom said. “But, it’s such a small amount there’s no reason to believe there was any sort of widespread conspiracy to commit fraud or alter the election.”

“It was people trying to make voters not confident in the system,” Hathaway said. “I think there were certain political individuals who wanted to taint the system.”

“A lot of misunderstanding can be explained if people give you the chance to explain,” McBroom said. “But often citizens are overwhelmed with bad information coming from those who are at this point profiting from perpetuating these stories and theories.”

Claims of doctored voting software and tabulating machines failed scrutiny.

“A lot of theories depend on outright lies or blatant misunderstand of how (voting) equipment works to the point where some people who perpetuate claims are showing the wrong machines or are showing machines that are not the ones they’re telling about in the story,” McBroom said.

“There were assumptions being made that were blatant lies,” Hathaway said.

“They’re claiming (machines) could be hacked, but the machine doesn’t even have a modem or the county doesn’t use modems attached to the machines,” McBroom said.

“Were not even connected to the internet,” Hathaway said. “Numbers of the qualified voters file with the ballots issued have to match the number of ballots tabulated, which have to match the digital number going through the tabulator itself. There’s checks and balances in trifecta.”

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