Michigan Candidate Involved in Voting System Breach

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Michigan Candidate Involved in Voting System Breach

August 7, 2022 at 8:19 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 44 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2022/08/07/michigan-candidate-involved-in-voting-system-breach/

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“The Republican nominee for Michigan attorney general led a team that gained unauthorized access to voting equipment while hunting for evidence to support former President Donald Trump’s false election-fraud claims,” Reuters reports.

Detroit News: “Attorney General Dana Nessel’s office says a group of high-profile figures in the movement to dispute the 2020 presidential election, including the Michigan GOP’s likely nominee for attorney general, engaged in a ‘conspiracy’ to gain improper access to voting machines.”

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1. Matthew DePerno

Reuters, no paywall - https://archive.ph/88ChY

The analysis shows that people working with Matthew DePerno - the Trump-endorsed nominee for the state’s top law-enforcement post - examined a vote tabulator from Richfield Township, a conservative stronghold of 3,600 people in northern Michigan’s Roscommon County. [snip]

The involvement of a Republican attorney general nominee in a voting-system breach comes amid a national effort by backers of Trump’s fraud falsehoods to win state offices that could prove critical in deciding any future contested elections. [snip]

Reuters established the connection between Michigan’s DePerno and the Richfield voting-system breach by matching the serial number of the township’s tabulator to a photograph in a publicly released report written by a member of DePerno’s team. The photograph showed a printed record of a vote-tabulator’s activity, which also included a string of ten digits. Reuters confirmed that those numbers matched the serial number of a Richfield vote tabulator through public records obtained from the township. State officials had previously identified Richfield as the site of a voting-equipment security breach. [snip]

The previously unreported link to GOP attorney general candidate DePerno and his associates comes as Democratic incumbent Nessel advances her probe, which she launched in February 2022. Nessel is seeking re-election, which would create a conflict of interest if her political opponent became a suspect in her office’s investigation. The attorney general’s office declined to comment on the specifics of its investigation but said Nessel would “take appropriate steps to remove herself and her department should a conflict arise.”

DePerno is a tfg darling. In the Detroit News article, he tries to claim that current AG Nessel is engaging in a political attack to keep her seat. (The seat he's running for, naturally.) Meanwhile, he seems to have been caught red-handed gaining unauthorized access to voting tabulators. Plural. Wow.

Both articles are worth a full read.

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2. It needs to be said: Lock him up!