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Michigan City Clerk Charged with Altering Ballots in 2018 Midterms
nationalreview ^ | September 24, 2019 | JACK CROWE

Posted on 09/24/2019 2:09:07 PM PDT by MarvinStinson

Sherikia Hawkins was charged Monday with six felony counts for allegedly altering absentee ballots during the November 2018 election in her capacity as city clerk for the Detroit suburb of Southfield, Mich.

Hawkins, a 38-year-old registered Democrat, stands accused of altering 193 absentee ballots. She was arraigned Monday in Southfield on charges including falsifying returns or records, forgery of a public record, misconduct in office, and multiple counts of using a computer to commit a crime. She was released on $15,000 bond.

The alleged misconduct was discovered after the Oakland County Clerk’s Office noticed that 193 voter files had been changed to reflect that the voters failed to include a valid signature or return date, when all of the implicated voters had in fact included both items. The county clerk’s office later discovered the original voter files in the trash at the election-division office. The Michigan State Police then launched an investigation that resulted in Hawkins’s arrest.

In a statement announcing the charges, Michigan attorney general Dana Nessel and secretary of state Jocelyn Benson, both of whom are Democrats, stressed that Hawkins’s behavior was anomalous and did not affect any election outcomes.

“Voting is fundamental to the very essence of our democracy,” Nessel said during a Monday news conference. “It is incumbent upon state governments to safeguard the electoral process and ensure that every voter’s right to cast a ballot is protected.”

Hawkins, who makes $101,500 per year, has been placed on paid administrative leave pending the outcome of her trial.

The Michigan Democratic party honored Hawkins this year with the prestigious Dingell/Levin award at its annual Legacy Dinner in Detroit, and she was included in the Michigan Chronicle‘s “40 under 40” list in 2017.

Hawkins, who has overseen a total of 16 elections in Oakland County, began working in government in 2010 as deputy city clerk for the city of Pontiac, according to her LinkedIn profile. She was serving as the Pontiac city clerk when Democrat Gary Peters won a very tight congressional race against Republican Rocky Raczkowski in the state’s ninth congressional district in November 2010, the same election cycle that Republicans overwhelmingly reclaimed the House majority. Peters, who has has since been elected to the Senate, bested Raczkowski by just 6,405 votes out of a total 245,055 cast.

Michigan Rising Action, a local branch of the conservative advocacy group American Rising, is now calling for a sweeping investigation into all of the elections that Hawkins has overseen in her nearly ten-year career.

“The charges against Ms. Hawkins are extremely troubling and must be fully investigated. The integrity of our elections is essential to the protection of our constitutional rights and individual liberty. Michigan Rising Action is calling for a full audit of every election that Ms. Hawkins oversaw in her capacity as an elections official,” Tori Sachs, the group’s executive director, told National Review.

The group hopes to see the Michigan board of elections appoint an independent auditor to examine the entirety of Hawkins’s professional record to ensure that previous election results weren’t tainted.

Secretary of State Benson described Hawkins’s misconduct as “rare” in comments to reporters on Monday. While Hawkins’s brazenly fraudulent tactics may constitute a rarity, Detroit and its surrounding suburbs have experienced multiple instances of electoral incompetence and possible fraud in recent years.

Detroit city clerk Janice Winfrey’s office was audited by the state in 2017 after elections supervisors discovered discrepancies between ballot boxes and voting totals in nearly 60 percent of the city’s precincts. One year earlier, during the 2016 presidential election cycle, voting machines in more than one-third of Detroit’s precincts registered more votes than the number of registered voters in those precincts.

The Michigan secretary of state’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment regarding the opening of a probe into the elections Hawkins previously managed.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Michigan
KEYWORDS: 45thdistrict; dananessel; democrat; detroit; election; electionfraud; fraud; jocelynbenson; miballotharvesting; michballotharvesting; michellefappel; michigan; sherikiahawkins; sherikialhawkins; southfield; votefraud
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To: TheNext

Agreed. Execute her publicly to send a message.


41 posted on 09/24/2019 5:34:45 PM PDT by DickBrannigan ("And the fact that I haven't put a gun in my mouth, you pudding of a woman, makes me a winner!")
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To: MarvinStinson

This is the tip of the iceberg.


42 posted on 09/24/2019 5:36:09 PM PDT by vetvetdoug
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To: vetvetdoug

You bet.


43 posted on 09/24/2019 5:40:30 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
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To: Skywise
and as that wasn’t enough to swing an election others WERE involved

You know this is just the visible tip of the democrat fraud machine.

44 posted on 09/24/2019 5:40:48 PM PDT by doorgunner69
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To: Trump Girl Kit Cat; FrdmLvr
This was the 2018 election where we LOST the house!!!

Right. This is also the election where Debbie Stabenow got a lot of hinky county vote totals to hang onto her Senate seat.

45 posted on 09/24/2019 6:01:28 PM PDT by kiryandil (The Media & the DNC tells you who you're gonna vote for. We CHOSE Trump.)
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To: Trump Girl Kit Cat

Oh yes of course...I think I blocked that one out! Lol!


46 posted on 09/24/2019 6:05:15 PM PDT by FrdmLvr (They never thought she would lose.)
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To: dforest

We will lose in 2020. All the RATS are going to cheat in a big way.

....

You are a pathetic weasel! Glad our POTUS doesn’t act like a pu$$y!


47 posted on 09/24/2019 6:07:02 PM PDT by Artcore (Trump 2020!)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
Detroit city clerk Janice Winfrey’s office was audited by the state in 2017 after elections supervisors discovered discrepancies between ballot boxes and voting totals in nearly 60 percent of the city’s precincts. One year earlier, during the 2016 presidential election cycle, voting machines in more than one-third of Detroit’s precincts registered more votes than the number of registered voters in those precincts.
Gosh, I'm wearing a look of surprise. ;^)

48 posted on 09/24/2019 6:09:22 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: MarvinStinson
Michigan City Clerk Charged with Altering Ballots in 2018 Midterms

She got caught 'this' time.

I'm 100% certain that it's not the only time she committed the same crime. She did it before, and because she didn't get caught before, she became emboldened to do it again.

No doubt, others knew and/or were complicit in the crime. She needs to talk and mention names; names who helped and names of those that were helped.
49 posted on 09/24/2019 6:10:35 PM PDT by adorno
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To: dforest

Weasel was an incorrect application. I’ll just go with pathetic.


50 posted on 09/24/2019 6:11:36 PM PDT by Artcore (Trump 2020!)
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To: MarvinStinson; Skywise; blueunicorn6; FrdmLvr; Maudeen; marron; Trump Girl Kit Cat; TheNext; ...
This is what happened in Michigan in 2018.

Secretive group bombards Michigan clerks with requests for 2016 ballots
https://www.mlive.com/news/2018/08/michigan_clerks_receiving_foia.html

I KNEW something hinky was going on, and said so more than a few times.

I analyzed the county-by-county voting, and none of the larger blue counties had a "blue wave" - because they couldn't return the info from 2016 in time.

There was hink in the smaller counties, many of which had time to respond to the FOIA request [which included the absentee ballot information - who requested them, and who didn't].

I suspect the absentee ballots got manipulated by the Dems - "Michigan ballot harvesting", since it's not legal like in Cartelfornia.

51 posted on 09/24/2019 6:14:32 PM PDT by kiryandil (The Media & the DNC tells you who you're gonna vote for. We CHOSE Trump.)
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To: MarvinStinson

“during the 2016 presidential election cycle, voting machines in more than one-third of Detroit’s precincts registered more votes than the number of registered voters in those precincts.”

That’s easily explainable—the Dim officials just wanted to make sure there was no voter suppression of dead voters; you know how those Republicans try to keep folks from voting.


52 posted on 09/24/2019 6:22:33 PM PDT by SharpRightTurn (Chuck Schumer--giving pond scum everywhere a bad name.)
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To: MarvinStinson

Now multiply this times about a thousand across the nation. For every crooked election official like this that gets caught there are likely a thousand that get away with their crime and change the outcome of elections. The republican party needs to step up their vigilance and voter ID laws need to be enacted everywhere. No ID, no vote.


53 posted on 09/24/2019 6:37:13 PM PDT by GaryCrow
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To: MarvinStinson

Black Privilege.


54 posted on 09/24/2019 7:37:46 PM PDT by Right Wing Assault (Kill-googl,TWTR,FCBK,NYT,WaPo,Hlwd,CNN,NFL,BLM,CAIR,Antfa,SPLC,ESPN,NPR,NBA,ARP)
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To: MarvinStinson
Sherikia Hawkins was charged Monday with six felony counts for allegedly altering absentee ballots during the November 2018 election in her capacity as city clerk for the Detroit suburb of Southfield, Mich. Hawkins, a 38-year-old registered Democrat...

It's a start...

55 posted on 09/24/2019 8:02:30 PM PDT by GOPJ (What exactly was Hunter Biden doing in that foreign country and why was he hired to do it?- Vennochi)
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To: SunkenCiv
Democrats 'Shocked' Michigan Election Official Was Charged with Felony Election Fraud

Me thinks thou protesteth too much.

56 posted on 09/24/2019 8:10:13 PM PDT by Maudeen (The surest fact in all the world is not death but the return of the Lord Jesus Christ.)
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To: Maudeen
They were -- shocked about the fact that she was caught. :^)

57 posted on 09/24/2019 8:18:33 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: MarvinStinson

Sherikia is now “shrieking” at the long jail sentences she is going to receive, and deservedly so.

So long Sherk. You’ve earned you new rest home.


58 posted on 09/24/2019 9:54:49 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: MarvinStinson

Lock her up!


59 posted on 09/24/2019 9:56:00 PM PDT by MrChips ("To wisdom belongs the apprehension of eternal things." - St. Augustin, and I have never heard Booc)
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To: MrChips

That’s not a Christian name.
My pastor warned parishioners to not bring babies with civic birth certificates to his church for baptismal sacraments.
Call them anything you want but first names must be Christian names.
I agree.


60 posted on 09/25/2019 2:13:24 AM PDT by namvolunteer (Obama says the US is subservient to the UN and the Constitution does not apply. That is treason.9we)
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