Michigan GOP Probe Finds No Evidence Of Widespread Fraud In 2020 Election

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Michigan GOP Probe Finds No Evidence of Widespread Fraud in 2020 Election

 

 

Brittany Bernstein

Wed, June 23, 2021, 5:55 PM

 

 

Michigan’s Republican-controlled state Senate released a report on Wednesday concluded that there was “no evidence of widespread of systematic fraud” in the 2020 election.

The report, released by the state Senate Oversight Committee, said that its “clear finding is that citizens should be confident the results represent the true results of the ballots cast by the people of Michigan.”

“There is no evidence presented at this time to prove either significant acts of fraud or that an organized, wide-scale effort to commit fraudulent activity was perpetrated in order to subvert the will of Michigan voters,” the report says.

President Joe Biden defeated former President Donald Trump in the state by 154,000 votes.

 

The panel adds that it can “confidently assert that it has been thorough in examination of numerous allegations of unlawful actions, improper procedures, fraud, vote theft, or any other description which would cause citizens to doubt the integrity of Michigan’s 2020 election results.”

The investigation included a review of the results from Antrim County, where human errors originally led to incorrect results. While the county’s unofficial results showed Biden winning, Trump ultimately won with 61 percent of the vote, according to The Hill.

Republican Antrim County Clerk Sheryl Guy said the error was a result of a failure to update a number of precincts’ media drives’ ballot information, leading to mismatched data when the unofficial results were tabulated, the Detroit Free Press reported.

“All compelling theories that sprang forth from the rumors surrounding Antrim County are diminished so significantly as for it to be a complete waste of time to consider them further,” committee chairman Republican state Senator Edward McBroom wrote in an addendum to the report.

“As is often the case, the truth is not as attractive or as immediately desirable as the lies and the lies contain elements of truth,” he said. “We must all remember: ‘extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof’ and ‘claiming to find something extraordinary requires first eliminating the ordinary.”

Of false claims that ballots were manipulated in Antrim County through Dominion Voting Systems, the report said the data “clearly and concisely shows that ideas and speculation that the Antrim County election workers or outside entities manipulated the vote by hand or electronically are indefensible.”

“Further, the Committee is appalled at what can only be deduced as a willful ignorance or avoidance of this proof perpetuated by some leading such speculation,” the report said.

The panel also debunked claims that dead people or non-residents voted, that voting tabulators were compromised, ballots were harvested or that ballots were “dumped at the TCF Center in Detroit.

The report said there were two cases in Wayne County where a person appeared to have voted but was deceased: one was a clerical error and the other was a 92-year-old woman who died days before the election.

There was no evidence that thousands of absentee voter ballots were mailed out without having been requested, the committee found. Those who made such claims were falsely equating absentee ballot applications with actual absentee ballots, according to the report.

The report is the result of an investigation into election fraud. claims that began on November 7, days after Election Day. The committee reviewed 28 hours of testimony from almost 90 people and “countless” claims and concerns from the people of Michigan. It also subpoenaed documents from government entities.

 

https://www.yahoo.com/news/michigan-gop-probe-finds-no-215512032.html

 

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Trump calls Michigan GOP-backed 2020 election investigation that confirmed Biden’s win a ‘cover up’

 

 

Mike Brest

Thu, June 24, 2021, 2:15 PM

 

 

Former President Donald Trump labeled the Michigan state Senate’s election investigation that confirmed President Joe Biden’s victory a “cover up" Thursday.

Trump, who acknowledged Monday that he hasn’t conceded the November race, ridiculed the state Senate Oversight Committee's investigation, the results of which were announced a day before.

He called out Mike Shirkey, the majority leader of the state Senate, and Ed McBroom, the head of the committee, claiming they are “doing everything possible to stop Voter Audits in order to hide the truth about” the election. Trump also urged supporters in Michigan to "vote them the hell out of office" if they don't "do the right thing."

 

"The Senate 'investigation' of the election is a cover up, and a method of getting out of a Forensic Audit for the examination of the Presidential contest," he said. “Corrupt (?) politicians falsely claim there was no Voter Fraud in Michigan (has anyone looked at what is considered the most corrupt election city in the U.S., DETROIT?)."

The committee wrapped up its investigation after conducting nearly 30 hours of public hearings, hearing testimony from 87 eyewitnesses, experts, and concerned citizens, reviewing over 400 pages of testimony, and subpoenaing key documents from the secretary of state.

The 55-page report detailed conspiracy theories and allegations of fraud that had surfaced and included debunking most of them.

 

“Instead of doing a Forensic Audit, they want to investigate the Patriots who have fought for the truth and who are exposing a very possibly Rigged Election,” Trump added. “The truth will come out and RINO’s will pay at the polls, especially with primary voters and expected challenges. Our Country was based on Free and Fair Elections, and that’s what we must have!”

Trump and many of his supporters have called for forensic audits, such as the review in Maricopa County, Arizona, and in various states he lost in 2020.

 

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-calls-michigan-gop-backed-181500770.html

 

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[nstoolman1]

It is the same thing Georgia said (Every thing was done right) and come to find out things were not so on the up and up.

Let Michigan do an independent audit and see what comes up. 

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2 minutes ago, nstoolman1 said:

It is the same thing Georgia said (Every thing was done right) and come to find out things were not so on the up and up.

Let Michigan do an independent audit and see what comes up. 

 

An independent audit would be great....that's the route Arizona should have taken as opposed to hiring a known "stop the steal" believer.

 

GO RV, then BV

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Election prompts support for clerk, report of no fraud and audit request

 

 

Mardi Link, The Record-Eagle, Traverse City, Mich.

Thu, June 24, 2021, 8:31 AM

 

 

Jun. 24—BELLAIRE — Hours after state Republican lawmakers released a report showing investigators found no evidence to support repeated claims made by former President Donald Trump of widespread election fraud in Michigan, a trio of county clerks stood on the lawn of the Antrim County Courthouse and pledged support of County Clerk Sheryl Guy.

"When I heard the nonsense about Sheryl, I said this doesn't even make sense," Genesee County Clerk and former Democratic lawmaker John Gleason said, of the repeated criticisms lodged over Guy's handling of the 2020 presidential election.

"They were waiting to ambush somebody," Gleason said. "And I think they were prepared, and I think that's why they've done what they did to our nation's capital and I think that's what they're doing to Sheryl."

Also in attendance were Muskegon County Clerk Nancy Waters and Midland County Clerk Ann Manary.

 

"She is our Sheryl," Waters said, praising Guy for showing her the ropes when she was first elected in 2009.

Guy, who attended the gathering where supporters held signs and cheered her name, previously said she, her co-workers and some of her family members had received threatening phone calls and were subjected to other frequent harassment.

The threats, which Antrim County Sheriff Dan Bean previously said were likely phoned in from out of state, followed Guy's acknowledgement in November there'd been a mistake by her office in reporting the initial results of the 2020 presidential election.

The mistake was corrected prior to certification and the county's results were further confirmed in a hand recount conducted by the state's Bureau of Elections on Dec. 17, but that did not stop Trump allies, including his former personal attorney Rudy Guiliani, from seizing on the mistake as evidence of fraud.

Trump allies also accused Dominion Voting Systems equipment, which is used in Antrim and 65 of Michigan's 83 counties, of being fraudulent and flipping votes cast for the former president and assigning them to then-challenger Joe Biden — similar claims were made in a lawsuit filed against Antrim County in late November, which Dominion has repeatedly denied.

A judge dismissed the lawsuit in May, the deadline for filing an appeal is approaching and a motion hearing is scheduled July 12 in front of 13th Circuit Court Judge Kevin Elsenheimer.

The 55-page report released by the state Senate Oversight Committee Wednesday morning rejected several faulty claims including that votes were flipped, that thousands of dead people voted, that absentee ballots were sent unsolicited to Michigan voters en mass and that voting machines were connected to the internet allowing foreign actors to tamper with election results.

An investigation in November by the Record-Eagle found, among a random sample of voters included in a "Dead MI Absentee Voters" list circulating on social media were very much alive and several had served as volunteer poll workers.

Alleged dead voters conspiracies were touted by Trump's re-election campaign to fuel claims of voter fraud in the battleground states that propelled Joe Biden to victory. Similar claims were debunked in Georgia and Pennsylvania.

The Michigan list was one of several shared on Twitter by a conservative political activist with 245,000 followers, who sells merchandise and produces a subscription-based podcast described as "comedy + journalism."

The report from the oversight committee also rejected the idea that further audits are needed of the state's 2020 presidential election.

"Most of the rigorous debate over additional audits comes from fears surrounding the technology used and its vulnerabilities as allegedly demonstrated in Antrim County," Committee Chairman Ed McBroom (R-Vulcan) wrote in a letter included in the report. "Without any evidence to validate those fears, another audit, a so-called forensic audit, is not justifiable."

The results of the inquiry were eight months in the making and approved by all four Republican committee members —McBroom, Committee Majority Vice Chairwoman Lana Theis (R-Brighton) and Sen. John Bizon (R-Battle Creek).

The report was not released in time to hold sway over a recent decision by Cheboygan County Commissioners, however.

On Tuesday commissioners sent a letter to Jonathan Brater, director of the state's Bureau of Elections, seeking a hand recount of ballots cast in Cheboygan County's 2020 presidential election citing concerns by constituents.

The letter questions whether the county's Dominion Voting Systems equipment was connected to the internet and whether an "unauthorized computer" manipulated the vote — issues shared nationally on social media by conspiracy theorists and repeatedly debunked.

Many members of the crowd gathered in Antrim County Wednesday held professionally printed signs supporting Guy and the integrity of the county's election staff.

LuAnne Cooper brought a hand-printed sign, with white letters on pink paper that simply said, "I love democracy."

Cooper said she supports several activist political groups, but that she was attending as a local voter and not on behalf of any organization.

"I am a member of many of those groups but I'm here because I live in Bellaire," Cooper said. "I'm here to support the people and the families of Bellaire."

The gathering was brief — it lasted less than an hour —and Guy, who declined official comment citing ongoing litigation, said she planned to go back to work once the small crowd had dispersed.

She said she planned to spend the rest of the day on going over COVID-19 reimbursement funding for the county's ambulance service, but first she was taking her staff and the visiting clerks out to lunch for burgers at the Bellaire Bar.

"It's a work day for us, like any other day," Guy said.

 

https://www.yahoo.com/news/election-prompts-support-clerk-report-123100443.html

 

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The GOP and the DNC are both old guard establishment.....or deep state if you want to call it that.....they control the media.....and until Trump came along, the narrative.

 

They condemn, and censor, any one not willing to fall in lockstep with their desired policies...

 

Pence is also Old Guard Establishment....

 

There is a battle for the Country.....the old school status quo believers that have, and continue, to run the US into the ground.....and the new school who want to have a Government for, and by, the people once again.....    CL

 

Out with the old, in with the new!