Posted on 06/23/2021 9:52:06 AM PDT by Red Badger
A county in Michigan has voted in favor of a hand-recount of its 2020 presidential election ballots and will hire an outside firm to investigate any possible voting machine tampering.
The Cheboygan County Board of Commissioners voted 4-3 to send a letter to the state elections director seeking a hand recount of the ballots and a comparison of the results with those reported after the Nov. 3 election, The Hill reported.
Donald Trump won the county with 64% but Joe Biden won Michigan by 154,000 votes.
The board also proposed hiring an “accredited election auditor” to examine whether the county’s voting equipment had been “in communication with any unauthorized computer and whether there is any evidence that any unauthorized computer actually manipulated” the votes.
“As commissioners, we have heard from many of our constituents expressing concerns/questions” about the election, said Chairman John Wallace.
“We believe we have a responsibility to address these concerns/questions,” Wallace added.
Now, here’s where things get tricky.
Michigan’s election system is overseen by the Democrat Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson.
Benson’s spokesperson, Tracy Wimmer, said they will review the letter and respond to the commission.
In other words, it’s hard to imagine that Democrats will allow this to proceed, but it’s a good start for Republicans in the battleground state.
Democrats across the country have come out against audits of the 2020 election.
Late last week, Colorado Democrat Secretary of State Jena Griswold announced the state is adopting “emergency elections rules” to ban third parties from accessing voting equipment in the state.
Effective immediately, the new rules prohibit any third-party individual or vendor from accessing any component of a county’s voting equipment in Colorado, according to a news release.
Per the rules, a person can only access a county’s voting system if they are an employee of the county clerk, an employee of the voting system provider, an employee of the Secretary of State’s office, or an appointed election judge.
They must also have passed a comprehensive criminal background check.
Many have been arguing for months that the election audit in Maricopa County, Arizona, could pave the way for many other states to follow.
Maricopa County has completed the hand counting of 2,089,563 ballots.
Now, the remaining paper evaluation process will be finished by next week.
At our current rate of examining over 100k ballots per day, we will complete the paper examination phase of the audit by Saturday, June 26.
— Maricopa Arizona Audit (@ArizonaAudit) June 16, 2021
Arizona GOP Chairwoman Dr. Kelli Ward recently provided a major update on the audit and what comes next.
Last week, it was revealed that a whopping nine state delegations will tour the Maricopa County audit facility on Friday.
Ward, who threatened that there “could be arrests of people who are refusing to comply,” says the audit could be completed much sooner than expected.
A hand-recount does nothing to detect nor remedy fraudulent ballots, e.g. including those with missing signatures, those from a copy machine, or those lacking chain-of-custody documentation.
Having Democrat opposition and obstruction in any jurisdiction that wants to do an audit is no obstacle for those who are determined to do it. Here in Arizona we overcame a RINO governor and county supervisors, a flaccid AG, and a MAGA hating Democrat Secretary of State, so it can be done anyplace else. Ignore the doom and gloomers who say it can’t be done. Get a spine and push these things through wherever you are..
there is another aspect that has not been addressed...
the bush league chamber of commerce worshiping republiCAN’Ts that control our state legislature have refused, and publically stated so, that they will not order a state audit of this election.
It is therefore up to the county to order audits...
The framers designed the constitution to keep all politics local..
We in michiganstan must do exactly that
Anyone know what the adjudication rate for Cheboygan County was this time around?
Just curious.
“The board also proposed hiring an “accredited election auditor” to examine whether the county’s voting equipment had been “in communication with any unauthorized computer and whether there is any evidence that any unauthorized computer actually manipulated” the votes.”
So very interesting that Michigan, per their contract with Dominion (see link below, page 127) had one eDevice CellGo (cellular 3G internet modem dongle, aee link below) per precinct.
https://www.michigan.gov/documents/sos/071B7700117_Dominion_555356_7.pdf
https://www.edevice.com/products/cellgo
There were "blue waves" in only the red Michigan counties in 2018 and 2020.
No "blue waves" in the blue Michigan counties.
This was after a Soros Foundation-funded group got hold of the 2016 and 2018 ballots via FOIAs [only in the red counties! - the blues were too big to respond to the FOIAs in a timely manner - BEFORE the election] in the summer of 2018 and the summer of 2020.
Trump Felonia James Stabencow Trump increase Joek increase Charlevoix 8674 5137 13811 Charlevoix 7783 5596 459 108.94% 9841 1167 113.45% 6939 1802 135.08% Emmet 10616 6972 17588 Emmet 9875 7618 646 109.27% 12135 1519 114.31% 9662 2690 138.58% Cheboygan 8683 4302 12985 Cheboygan 7087 4661 359 108.34% 10186 1503 117.31% 5437 1135 126.38%
Good post.
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