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TexasTowelie

(116,769 posts)
Mon Jun 21, 2021, 01:53 AM Jun 2021

Conservative activists request audit of Michigan election

LANSING — Conservative activists who falsely claim former President Donald Trump won reelection asked the Republican-led Michigan Senate on Thursday to order an audit of the results, seeking a review like one that is underway in fellow battleground state Arizona.

Michigan Conservative Coalition co-founder Marian Sheridan said "something very wrong" happened in the 2020 election, though Trump's unfounded fraud allegations have been resoundingly rejected by officials who certified the results, judges and others. The group said it will submit more than 7,000 affidavits from people backing a "forensic" audit.

It was not clear what, if anything, Senate Republicans may do.

Senate Majority Leader Mike Shirkey, a Republican who has acknowledged Joe Biden won Michigan, said Wednesday that the expected delivery of petitions was an "indication of the continued concern about ... the integrity of the election." He said once the Senate Oversight Committee's pending report on the election becomes public, however, "many of those concerns will be put to bed. But people are passionate about it. So we've got to let them have their opportunity to voice their concern."

Read more: https://www.cheboygannews.com/story/news/politics/state/2021/06/17/conservative-activists-request-audit-michigan-election/7730587002/

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Conservative activists request audit of Michigan election (Original Post) TexasTowelie Jun 2021 OP
Hopefully WHITT Jun 2021 #1
Absolutely! SheltieLover Jun 2021 #4
What Commenter WHITT So Succinctly States Seriously Deserves Repetition wyn borkins Jun 2021 #2
Let's review "the integrity" of the reTHUG Fascist Insurrectionist Cultists, not the election. abqtommy Jun 2021 #3
In Total Agreement wyn borkins Jun 2021 #5

WHITT

(2,868 posts)
1. Hopefully
Mon Jun 21, 2021, 02:08 AM
Jun 2021

if there is an attempt to transfer ballots to some private entity, the DOJ will order the FBI to intercede and insist ballots with federal election data must remain in the custody of election officials.

wyn borkins

(1,109 posts)
2. What Commenter WHITT So Succinctly States Seriously Deserves Repetition
Mon Jun 21, 2021, 03:34 AM
Jun 2021

So:
"Hopefully, if there is an attempt to transfer ballots to some private entity, the DOJ will order the FBI to intercede and insist ballots with federal election data must remain in the custody of election officials."

abqtommy

(14,118 posts)
3. Let's review "the integrity" of the reTHUG Fascist Insurrectionist Cultists, not the election.
Mon Jun 21, 2021, 03:51 AM
Jun 2021

The courts have upheld the election integrity. It's time to get the reTHUGS into court and into jail.

wyn borkins

(1,109 posts)
5. In Total Agreement
Mon Jun 21, 2021, 09:45 AM
Jun 2021

I agree with you 100% AND it's way past time for those reTHUGlicans to pay for their deceit (!).

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