It briefly looked like the first domino in reversing the Presidential election fraud might have appeared in Wayne County:
The Wayne County Board of Canvassers deadlocked 2-2 Tuesday along party lines on whether the county’s Nov. 3 election results should be certified, delaying the conclusion of Michigan’s canvassing process as at least four state and federal lawsuits seek to do the same.
The decision was lauded by Republicans but decried by Democrats. During a public comment session, the vote was described as a targeted attack on majority-Black Detroit.
The decision came after absentee ballot poll books at 70% of Detroit’s 134 absentee counting boards were found to be out of balance without explanation. The mismatches varied anywhere from one to more than four votes.
In August, canvassers found 72% of Detroit’s absentee voting precincts didn’t match the number of ballots cast. The imbalances between August and November are not an exact comparison since August’s canvassing was based on results from 503 precincts and November’s canvassing was based on 134 counting boards.
And then, just as suddenly, it was gone:
The four canvassers in Wayne County, Michigan, have agreed to certify the election results after the two Republican members initially voted against certification.
Monica Palmer and William Hartmann of the Wayne County Board of Canvassers initially said there were discrepancies in the results from the county’s 43 jurisdictions including Detroit, the Detroit Free Press reported.
“I believe that we do not have complete and accurate information on those poll books,” Palmer, the chair of the committee said, earlier in the day.
The board reached a compromise later in the day after condemnation over the refusal to certify the results, The Washington Post reported. In addition to certifying the results, the canvassers called on Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson to audit votes in precincts where there were discrepancies. Benson said it’s normal for there to be some clerical inconsistencies, especially with record turnouts.
“Called on.” Want to guess Jocelyn Benson’s background?
The Michigan Secretary of State is Jocelyn Benson, a 43-year-old Harvard educated attorney. Noteworthy is a professional life of liberal and progressive activism on voting rights issues.
Before going to law school, Benson earned a Master’s at Magdalen College, Oxford, in the United Kingdom, conducting research into the sociological implications of white supremacy and neo-Nazism. Upon returning to the US, she lived and worked in Montgomery, Alabama, where she worked for the Southern Poverty Law Center as an investigative journalist, researching white supremacist and neo-Nazi organizations. She also worked as a summer associate for voting rights and election law for the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund.
At Harvard Law School she was editor of the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review. From 2002–2004, she served as the Voting Rights Policy Coordinator of the Harvard Civil Rights Project, a non-profit organization that sought to link academic research to civil rights advocacy efforts.
When elected in 2018, she became the first Democrat to occupy the Secretary of State’s Office in Michigan since 1994.
It was in Detroit where election observers were kept at a distance, and their ability to watch the vote counting was obscured by paper placed in windows.
I fear that the Wayne County canvassers have allowed themselves to be placated by a handful of magic beans…
