Bureau of Elections denies Cheboygan County Commission's request to conduct election audit

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Clara Hendrickson
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Republican attempts to continue questioning the results of the Nov. 3 election has faced another setback in Michigan.

On Wednesday, the Bureau of Elections declined a request from the Cheboygan County Commission to conduct another post-election audit.

Bureau of Elections denies Cheboygan County Commission's request to conduct election audit
Director of Elections Jonathan Brater told the Cheboygan County Commission it doesn't have the authority to undertake a post-election audit.
freep.com
9:04 AM · Aug 5, 2021

https://www.freep.com/story/news/politics/elections/2021/08/05/state-elections-director-denies-cheboygan-county-commission-audit/7992370002/

Republican attempts to continue questioning the results of the 2020 presidential election faced another setback in Michigan Wednesday after the Bureau of Elections declined a county commission's request to conduct an audit prompted by false conspiracy theories that votes were manipulated.

The Cheboygan County Board of Commissioners approved the request June 22. The commission sought the bureau's permission to investigate whether the county's voting machines were connected with "any unauthorized computer" that changed the results of the presidential election.

In an Aug. 4 letter denying the request, Director of Elections Jonathan Brater told the commission's chair, John Wallace, that the commissioners lacked the authority under state law to conduct or supervise post-election audits. Michigan election law only allows the Secretary of State and county clerks to carry out electiaudits, Brater wrote.

Wallace said he was not dismayed by Brater's response. "I'm not disappointed and I think he's following the statutes," he told the Free Press.

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1. So, the plague continues to spread...............

American democracy continues to be preserved by TRUE AMERICANS willing to fight and uphold the LAW!!!!!

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2. Local officials need to speak up and reject the big lie.

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3. Commissioners need to follow the law. And...

County Clerks are not accountable to county commissioners. County clerks are not appointed or hired by the county commissioners. County clerks are elected to their office.