An Election Night mistake by a GOP clerk in northern Michigan ignited a global conspiracy theory and claims that Trump loyalists confiscated and examined voting machines in a quixotic bid to prove the 2020 election was rigged.
Charges against three Trump loyalists demonstrate that, despite being tested, Michigan’s election laws and security systems still work, say clerks and other officials.
Michigan attorney Stefanie Lambert Junttila was charged Thursday with felony charges. She is accused of illegally accessing voting machines following the 2020 presidential election in an attempt to prove Trump’s unfounded claims.
‘Help me get this done in Michigan,’ a co-conspirator texted a key lawmaker. The latest indictment alleges pressure from the Trump campaign urging state officials to help overturn his 2020 election loss
The two are the first to face criminal charges into allegations Trump supporters broke open vote tabulators in an effort to prove the 2020 election was rigged.
Attorney Stefanie Lambert says she has been indicted in plot to illegally examine vote machines in an effort to prove 2020 election was rigged against Donald Trump. Others under investigation include Barry County Sheriff Dar Leaf.
Arraignments for the 16 ‘false electors’ charged with eight felony counts apiece are set for Aug. 10, court records show. Several defendants charged and their supporters are doubling down on the actions Attorney General Dana Nessel argues violated Michigan law.
The group ranges from high-profile party officials to town clerks, mayors and a dairy farmer. Some are defiant, others flummoxed. All face the same felony charges for trying to award Michigan’s 2020 electoral votes to Donald Trump.
An Oakland County judge gave a special prosecutor exactly what he wanted: A broad interpretation of a law that a grand jury could use to indict former attorney general candidate Matt DePerno and other 2020 election deniers accused of tampering with voting machines.
The decision has been delayed, however, as a special prosecutor seeks a declaratory ruling on a law the grand jury could use to indict individuals, including former GOP attorney general candidate Matthew DePerno.
The Michigan Attorney Grievance Commission says Sidney Powell and other lawyers who tried to overturn the 2020 election committed ‘misconduct.’ A separate discipline board will now consider punishments.
Newly elected county commissioners voted to hire a well-known conservative law firm, bypassing a competitive bidding process and sparking transparency concerns.
The secretary of state was honored, along with other elections officials and Capitol police officers, by President Joe Biden in a ceremony marking the two-year anniversary of the Jan. 6 insurrection.
Frustrated by the pace of a federal probe, Nessel says she’s re-opening a state-level investigation into a scheme to award Michigan’s 2020 presidential electors to Donald Trump even though he lost the state.
Not a single Michigander accused of related crimes has been acquitted in the Capitol insurrections. The 11 convictions and counting are part of a “massive” federal effort to deter future insurrections.
A two-year legal fight that sparked global conspiracies about voting machines ends as the court rejects a lawsuit from former GOP attorney general candidate Matthew DePerno.