Michigan Bill Guts Investigations of Election Fraud – Update

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However, there is no language in the bill that bans investigations into voter fraud. Under the new system, voters or election officials who suspect that election law violations occurred can report to local law enforcement officials, county prosecutors, the state Bureau of Elections, and the state attorney general, according to Lindsay Oswald, the Republican county clerk and register of deeds for St. Joseph County, Michigan, who spoke to PolitiFact.

The problem is the election officials can no longer investigate. The process of referring it ends up in the dustbin or just takes too long.

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Also, while Senate Bill 603 does strip the board of canvassers of the authority to conduct fraud investigations, in practice, boards of canvassers have not generally conducted these investigations, according to Christopher Thomas, who was the Michigan board of canvassers’ secretary from 1981 to 2017 and served as the state’s elections director for 36 years under both Democratic and Republican secretaries of state.

Yesterday, Michigan Democrats passed a bill to make detecting and challenging election fraud nearly impossible.

Bill SB 603 prevents the board of canvassers from investigating election fraud concerns brought by voters ”

Senator Jim Runestad said, “Today, Democrats overturned 70 years of election law in order to commit a disgusting gutting of our election recount protections. The passage of this bill is a complete disgrace!”

The bill also strips the board of subpoena power and only allows them to “refer fraud” over to corrupt Attorney General and to prosecutors in the Democrat-controlled cities where the fraud is most likely to occur.

Under this bill, you cannot investigate election fraud. You can only investigate election “errors.” And if you try to claim fraud, they can use new powers introduced by the bill to penalize you because you’re engaging in “election interference.”

Michigan is one of the states that barred Republican poll watchers. They also tried to keep Donald Trump off the ballot. In 2020, GOP Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel held a press conference and unveiled 131 affidavits and 2,800 incident reports documenting fraud and other irregularities in the election in Michigan – the media didn’t care.

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BREAKING: Michigan Democrats just passed a bill to make it impossible to detect and challenge election fraud. The bill prevents the board of canvassers from investigating election fraud concerns brought by voters

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