Pre-postmarking absentee ballots in Michigan
3. Changing Dates on Absentee Ballots.
88. All absentee ballots that existed were required to be inputted into the QVF system
by 9:00 p.m. on November 3, 2020. This was required to be done in order to have a final list of
absentee voters who returned their ballots prior to 8:00 p.m. on November 3, 2020. In order to
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have enough time to process the absentee ballots, all polling locations were instructed to collect
the absentee ballots from the drop-box once every hour on November 3, 2020.
89. Jessica Connarn is an attorney who was acting as a Republican challenger
attheTCFCenterinWayneCounty.EXHIBIT6.JessicaConnarn’saffidavitdescribeshow
anelectionpollworkertoldJessicaConnarnthatthepollworker“wasbeingtoldtochange the date on
ballots to reflect that the ballots were received on an earlier date.” Id. ¶1. Jessica Connarn also
provided a photograph of a note handed to her by the poll worker in which the poll worker
indicated she (the poll worker) was instructed to change the date ballots were received. See id.
Jessica Connarn’s affidavit demonstrates that poll workers inWayneCountywerepredatingabsentvoterballots,sothatabsentvoterballotsreceived after 8:00 p.m. on Election Day could
be counted.
90. Plaintiffs have learned of a United States Postal Service (“USPS”) worker
Whistleblower, on November 4, 2020 told Project Veritas that a supervisor named Johnathan
Clarke in Traverse City, Michigan potentially issued a directive to collect ballots and stamp them
as received on November 3, 2020, even though there were not received timely, as required by
law: “We were issued a directive this morning to collect any ballots we find in mailboxes,
collection boxes, just outgoing mail in general, separate them at the end of the day so that they
could hand stamp them with the previous day’s date,” the whistleblower stated. “Today is
November 4th for clarification.”4
This is currently under IG Investigation at the U.S. Post
Office. According to the Postal worker whistleblower, the ballots are in “express bags” so they
could be sent to the USPS distribution center. Id.
91. As set forth in the GLJC Complaint and in the Affidavit of Jessy Jacob, an
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employee of the City of Detroit Elections Department, “on November 4, 2020, I was instructed
to improperly pre-date the absentee ballots receive date that were not in the QVF as if they
hadbeen received on or before November 3, 2020. I was told to alter the information in the QVF
to falselyshowthattheabsenteeballotshadbeenreceivedintimetobevalid.Sheestimatesthatthis was
done to thousands of ballots.” Exh. 4, GLJC Complaint, Exh. B at ¶ 17.