Detroit Free Press - just in time for FOIA - Thanks “Emily”! :)
Mystery group wants copies of all Michigan’s 2016 presidential ballots
Clerks across Michigan are reporting receiving identical Freedom of Information Act requests seeking copies of the ballots and other records from the election in which almost 4.8 million Michiganders voted.
The request was dated Aug. 13, but it arrived on different dates in different places, LeBlanc said.
It is signed by someone named Emily, with no last name given. The request asks that the records be sent to United Action Group at a post office box in Astoria, New York. It lists a phone number and an email.
“There was an unusual FOIA request, We get requests on a regular basis,” Williams said. “There is an entity out there that has sent a request to many ... if not all of the clerks around the state, looking for copies of voted ballots from November 2016. We have an Attorney General opinion that they are open record.”
She said ballots have to be kept for 22 months after the election (which is up in September), “but we’ve advised the clerks that given you’re in an active FOIA request, you should not destroy those ballots.”
Among the records sought in addition to the ballots are:
Absentee ballots
Envelopes the absentee ballots were mailed in
Records listing the names of voters who requested absentee ballots
Provisional ballots, both counted and uncounted
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I do not think Michigan’s documents should be sent to New York. As a Michigander I do not want my ballot going out of state.
I am not finding that group through a search.
They want names of voters requesting ballots. Why is this not private? Are they planning to intimidate people?
Among the records sought in addition to the ballots are:
Absentee ballots
Envelopes the absentee ballots were mailed in
Records listing the names of voters who requested absentee ballots
Provisional ballots, both counted and uncounted
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Somebody should do this in every state!
Will this gambit uncover the Detroit area precincts that had more ballots than registered voters....or even population?