Statement from Michigan House Elections Vice Chair: 2020 Trump Electors are Innocent | The Gateway Pundit

Final week, Michigan Lawyer Basic Dana Nessel introduced expenses towards 16 Trump electors who submitted their votes as alternates amidst perception that there can be an sincere investigation into the 2020 election.

The costs embody forgery, election fraud, and conspiracy.

The Gateway Pundit published a video the place the electors publicly referred to as their votes a “again up slate” and affirmed, “this isn’t a alternative.”  Their actions have been to present a “life vote” to Michigan legislators beneath the presumption that there can be an sincere investigation/audit of the Michigan election, particularly in Wayne County, the place canvassers initially refused to certify the vote due to an imbalance in 70% of the 134 absentee counting boards in Detroit.

Michigan’s Home Elections Vice Chair, Rep. Rachelle Smit, has launched an announcement arguing that what the electors did was “utterly authorized, utterly legitimate, and anticipating that there can be an sincere investigation into Michigan voter fraud.”

“The Trump electors have been preserving the flexibility for a voter fraud investigation to occur after December 15, 2020.  The Trump electors dedicated no forgery, no fraud, and nil violation of Michigan’s election legal guidelines.  Dana Nessel is aware of this, however she introduced expenses towards these individuals anyway.  Our Michigan AG is an absolute shame to the rule of legislation.  It is a political prosecution by an lawyer common who shamelessly abuses the legislation for the basest of political motives.  Dana Nessel, as lawyer common, is a menace to the rule of legislation and our system of governance.”

From Fox2 on Nov 17, 2020:

It comes with a situation Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson conduct an audit of the unexplained precincts in Wayne County the place numbers didn’t match.

After initially break up on the vote to confirm the election outcomes from Wayne County, the board of canvassers in the end revised their vote and unanimously voted to certify the need of the individuals.

There wasn’t an sincere investigation into Wayne County’s canvassing board’s imbalance that we are able to discover.  There was, nevertheless, a statewide “risk-limiting audit” of 18,000 ballots out of 5.45 million (00.3%), utilizing “auditing software to randomly select ballots that will be pulled from any one of Michigan’s 1,520 local election jurisdictions and hand-reviewed.”   In search of 3 or 4% of doubtless fraudulent ballots in a universe of 5.45 million (~218,000) by solely taking a look at 00.3% of a universe is according to the proverbial “discovering a needle in a haystack”.  When you had 1,000 ballots, you’ll be taking a look at simply 3 ballots whole.  If 4% of the ballots have been fraudulent, these 3 ballots must discover 40 in a universe of 1,000.

Director of Michigan Bureau of Elections Jonathan Brater explains:

“What we’re going to be doing at this time is rolling 20 cube, 10-sided cube, to create a random quantity that we’re then going to place into a pc algorithm that can inform us which of those ballots from all throughout the state that we’re going to randomly pull.  After which we’re going to check about 18,000 ballots that we randomly pull to the machine tabulated totals, to substantiate inside a statistical degree of certainty that the result of the election was right.”

Additional, this “risk-limiting audit” does nothing to offer solutions concerning lacking chain of custody paperwork, ballot deliveries 3.5 hours after polls closed with a single driver with Indiana plates (no party observers),  late night ballot drops at 4am escorted twice by a car with Pennsylvania plates,  and once more, in 2022, similar late night drops (in 2022, Michigan Democrats took management of the state legislature).

The weaponized Michigan AG’s workplace is urgent expenses for actions that there’s precedent for in america:  in 1960, Hawaii despatched an “alternate slate of electors” after a contested election between John F Kennedy and Richard Nixon.  Kennedy’s three electors signed their very own certificates and despatched them to Washington.  Finally, after recounts and an investigation, Hawaii’s “alternate” electors have been sat and Hawaii was given to Kennedy

From Politico:

By December 1960, it was clear Kennedy had gained. Solely Hawaii’s end result remained unsure. Nixon had prevailed by simply 140 votes, in accordance with the preliminary outcomes, which have been licensed by the governor. A recount was underway on Dec. 19, 1960, when presidential electors throughout the nation have been required by legislation to satisfy and solid their ballots.

Nixon’s Hawaii electors met and solid their three votes in an official ceremony. However close by, Kennedy’s three elector nominees gathered and signed their very own certificates, delivering them to Washington as if Kennedy had gained the state.