Posted on 04/05/2023 8:25:07 AM PDT by Red Badger
A team of investigators at Michigan Fair Elections has been looking into activities of concern during the General Election last November 2022. Today, we are saddened to announce that blatant violations of multiple election laws appear to have occurred in Ann Arbor:
Approximately 600 voters were registered and allowed to vote absentee after the 8:00 pm deadline on November 8, in direct violation of MCL 168.731(3).
Unbelievable as it sounds, more than 120 of these voters registered on November 9, and their ballots were counted in the November 8 election
These violations are documented. They occurred on the University of Michigan campus in the City of Ann Arbor.
As results of the 2022 election in Michigan began to pour in, media headlines reported hours-long waits in lines to register and vote at the U-M campus. News broadcasts showed lines of student voters receiving enticements to vote in the form of pizzas, blankets, and drinks—in blatant violation of electioneering laws.
Then reports came in that state election officials had dispatched a computer programmer to adjust Ann Arbor’s voting systems to accept votes for the November 8 election from people who registered to vote in the early morning hours of November 9.
An absentee ballot cast after the deadline is NOT supposed to count. But late-cast ballots were counted.
Registered voters who are in line to vote in person may cast counted ballots, but previously unregistered voters may not register and vote after 8 PM, nor may anyone vote absentee after 8 PM.
To be clear:
You are not allowed to register to vote in an election after 8 PM.
You are not allowed vote absentee after 8 PM.
Volunteers from Pure Integrity Michigan Elections (PIME) and Michigan Fair Elections (MFE) decided to investigate. What they uncovered verified several issues; among them were apparent and significant violations of Michigan Compiled Law (MCL).
A soon-to-be-released report will provide a comprehensive examination of the findings from five months of research into the 2022 election in the City of Ann Arbor and on the University of Michigan campus. Below are a handful of the findings.
PIME and MFE agree:
All eligible voters should be encouraged to register and be allowed to vote. However, laws must be upheld in order to preserve the integrity of elections and protect voter rights. Otherwise, undue burdens are placed on local clerks and election workers, and select demographic groups gain an unfair advantage.
For each ineligible vote that is counted in an election, an eligible vote is suppressed and diluted. All eligible voters are entitled to have their ballot count. They are entitled to fair elections that uphold the laws and prevent the unlawful counting of ineligible ballots.
BALLOTS FROM VOTER REGISTRATIONS AS LATE AS NOVEMBER 9 WERE UNLAWFULLY CAST AND COUNTED IN THE NOVEMBER 8 ELECTION
Bizarre as it sounds, more than 120 people registered to vote on November 9, and then their unlawfully cast absentee ballots were counted in the November 8 election. In all, more than 600 individuals, mainly students at satellite registration offices on the University of Michigan campus, were allowed to register and vote absentee after the required 8 PM deadline on Election Day, November 8, 2022.
Voter History File showing a November 9 Registration for the November 8 Election
The time-stamped voter history record shows 600 voters were registered to vote after the deadline of 8 PM, November 8. Of those 600, roughly 120 voter records were time-stamped after midnight on the morning of November 9—the next day.
As disturbing, these voter history records were apparently altered to indicate that these voters registered on November 8. The falsification of election records is illegal.
Absentee voting versus in-person voting Michigan Compiled Law 168.731(3) states, “A person may apply in person at the clerk’s office before 8 PM on election day to vote as an absent voter.”
To be clear, the law does not allow the receipt of absentee ballots after the 8 PM deadline on Election Day. Neither does the law allow a person to register to vote after 8 PM on Election Day and have their ballot counted in the past election.
Whether through ignorance or malfeasance, Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson issued inaccurate guidance, tweeting:
“Whether you’re at your precinct in line to vote or at your local clerk’s office in line to register and vote, as long as you are in line by 8p, you can still register and vote.”
Contrary to the secretary’s mis-, mal- or disinformation, a person must be registered to vote before 8:00 PM in order to cast a ballot in the current election. Plus, no Michigan Compiled Law allows for an absentee ballot to be counted if received after 8:00 PM on Election Day.
In-person polling locations
Michigan law allows registered voters to cast counted ballots if they are standing in line at an in-person polling location when the polls close at 8:00 PM.
Individuals on the U of M campus line up to vote on Nov. 8, 2022. Photo credit M-Live
Previously registered voters may check into polling locations and fill out their ballots in person. With in-person voting, the voter feeds a ballot into a tabulator, and the person’s vote is counted in their presence. In-person, polling locations are set up in areas separate from clerk and clerk satellite offices.
The law states that polling places are the in-person voting locations “in which the election officials, challengers, voting machines or ballot boxes and voting booths, and persons in the actual process of voting, are located.”
MCL 168.663 Polling places….
Sec. 663. The legislative body of each city, village, and township shall provide for and cause to be erected in the room where any election is to be held in each election precinct of such city, village, or township, a suitable barrier which shall be so placed as to separate from the rest of the room the area in which the election officials, challengers, voting machines or ballot boxes and voting booths, and persons in the actual process of voting, are located…. (http://legislature.mi.gov/doc.aspx?mcl-168-663)
Clerk and satellite clerk offices
Clerk offices and satellite clerk offices, unlike polling locations, are registration sites. Here eligible but unregistered individuals may register to vote and receive their absentee ballots. Often, drop boxes are nearby where voters may deposit their absentee ballot in an approved secrecy sleeve before the deadline.
Clerk and campus satellite offices are not in person polling locations. A registrant cannot vote in-person at a clerk or satellite office.
Therefore, according to the law, anyone applying to register to vote at the Clerk’s office after 8 PM may vote in future elections. They may not vote in the past election because they missed the deadline. No matter where or what time they are standing in line.
Conclusions
Significant violations of law occurred in the 2020 election in Ann Arbor: At least 600 voters were allowed to register at satellite office locations after 8:00 PM and have their absentee ballots unlawfully counted; 120 voters were registered on November 9 and cast absentee ballots that were counted in the November 8 election. Records were altered, and computer systems were reportedly changed in order to allow these unlawful votes to count.
Recommendations
The results of the past election serve as models for change going forward. Those who committed unlawful acts should be held accountable, and these unlawful acts should be prevented from recurring.
Next, look for Part 2, “Favoritism demonstrated to a select demographic group: Students.”
Republican voters, I’m sure
I just can't believe it!! ...../sarc
btt
Conservatives are absolutely cowed by charges of “Racism.”
“anti-racism” is, in some form, the justification for every corrupt progressive social-engineering scheme and power grab of the last 60 years.
Its also why the Left must, by all means, keep blacks on the progressive plantation and as this drug loses its potency, its why they must delve further into hyped-up, radical neo-marxism.
Iceberg, tip. Notice it’s almost all girls in the pic. Young girls are the most brainwashed demo in the country. Utterly unreachable and motivated.
Although voter fraud is occurring everywhere you find Dung Beetle Party members all across the nation. The RATS and their “media” toadies have assured us that it isn’t “widespread”.
Take it to the Michigan Supreme Court........now that THEY have the “Progresssive” majority they will SUELY be in favor of “Fair” Elections.......ROFL
My reply to the “It isn’t widespread” lie is. “I am claiming it was significant, not wide spread.”
2022.
This is because some Republican told them Democrats vote on Wednesday. So, of course they’re going to allow it!
/end sarc/
As I always say (with the big caveat that we have many amazing, courageous women on the Right), it was Eve, and not Adam that was deceived by Satan (though they both nonetheless sinned). Studies that have been done of male versus female voting patterns have shown that if only men voted the electoral map would be painted red from coast to coast, with a few tiny pockets of blue. If only women voted, exactly the opposite.
It’s a huge problem, and it’s mainly the young single females that are killing us with their emotion-based voting, superficiality, and overall gullibility. Married women are far more conservative, but the Left is doing everything in its power to destroy marriage and families, creating more single women looking for government to be their “baby daddy.”
BTTT
Did anyone lose by 120 votes?
Yes that about sums it up and l see no way to fix it.
Lived near A2 for 15 years. Over half the office I worked out of was hyper-leftists. This kind of thing was perfectly reasonable to them. Fairness!
Never so glad that I hit retirement age when I did, and could flee to Ohio.
Is this when they registered? Or when the registration was processed?
Frankly, registration should be completed at least two weeks before the election, and an argument can be made for two months.
30 days in Florida......................
Guessing they voted for Biden hoping to get out of their student loans.
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