Cheboygan County considering ordering an election review.
The office of the Michigan secretary of state has told two county clerks that they do not legally have to provide access to voting equipment maintained by their office if ordered to do so by county boards.
"The Board has no authority to require you or any municipal clerk to provide external access to voting equipment maintained by your offices, and neither you nor municipal clerks in Cheboygan County should provide this access," Jonathan Brater, director of the Michigan Bureau of Elections, told Cheboygan County clerk Karen Brewster in a May 20 letter obtained by The Epoch Times.
Another official from the office of Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, a Democrat, sent a similar letter on the same day to the clerk in Antrim County, conveying the view that the board of commissioners there has no authority to require an audit or compel the providing of election records.
Critics of an ongoing audit of ballots and machines in Arizona's largest county have noted that the company leading the audit, Cyber Ninjas, lacks accreditation from the commission.
The county immediately after the election last year reported that Democrat Joe Biden received over 3,000 more votes in the county than then-President Donald Trump.
State law indicates that county boards lease, buy, or otherwise acquire electronic voting systems, including machines.
Saturday, May 29, 2021
Michigan Secretary of State Warns County Boards Against Ordering Audits
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