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President Trump continues to say that Michigan’s election system was rigged against him.
An investigation is under way, led by Upper Peninsula State Senator Ed McBroom, that’s looking into those and other allegations. But the Dickinson County Republican says his Michigan House-Senate Oversight Committee hearings are not about overturning the election results in favor of Trump.
“I can say with confidence that no matter what we find, whether it’s mistakes or outright fraud, I don’t have an expectation that we’re going to find that degree of it that would change things,” McBroom told RRN News. “Even if we were to look at Detroit and look at what we think are anomalies, and extrapoliate from that a percentage that’s simliar to other ‘blue cities’ votes, it doesn’t get us to 150,000 votes flipping the other way,”
But McBroom says it’s important to get to the bottom of where mistakes were made, what software might be compromised, and if there was fraud, hold those people responsible. He says it is important to investigate where things did go wrong so that it doesn’t happen again.
“Especially first hand accounts from some folks, especially some with distinguished reputations, and service to the state, who say they saw improper acts,” McBroom said. “We need to check that out. It’s not right to ignore those things. I’ve also seen affidavits that are just silly.”
McBroom says that hearing from county clerks in the first committee meeting was important.
“It has just really exposed just how poorly-developed the laws are surrounding what poll challengers do, who manages them, and what rules and what training they’re supposed to have,” McBroom said. “It’s really bad.”
McBroom says he’s hearing from Yoopers on both sides…some who claim there was widespread fraud, and others who believe that is nonsense. The committee will meet again Tuesday morning at 10:15 to specifically go over claims of irregularities in the counting of ballots at Detroit’s TCF Center.
“The next two hearings, we’ll be brining in people who have first-hand accounts that they want to share with us, that they’ve already shared through affidavits,” McBroom said. “Like I said, some of the affidavits are just plain silly. But there are a few that are very serious.”
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