A Michigan Republican spent eight months searching for evidence of election fraud

Nobody can put up with the MAGA Trumpers anymore. Even in the most conservative corner of Michigan.

Voters oust Michigan clerk who doubts election results
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/poli...clerk-who-doubts-election-results/ar-AA1aGqAV

ADAMS TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — Voters in one of Michigan's most conservative counties have ousted a small-town clerk accused of improperly handling voting equipment after casting doubt on President Joe Biden’s election victory.

Stephanie Scott lost Tuesday's recall election in Hillsdale County’s Adams Township to Suzy Roberts, who got 406 votes to Scott's 214, according to unofficial results reported by the county clerk’s office.

Roberts, a Republican who identifies as an independent, filed as non-party-affiliated in the recall election because Michigan law does not allow for challengers to file under the same political party, the Hillsdale Daily News reported previously.

Scott had run unopposed as a first-time Republican candidate when she was chosen in the November 2020 election to handle the voting in Adams Township, a reliably Republican community where the ticket of Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence received nearly 76% of the vote that year.

But she joined a crew of GOP elections officials around the nation who have questioned the accuracy of U.S. voting systems. Scott is among a number of elections officials around the country accused of mishandling voting equipment in their zeal to uncover fraud.

Before Tuesday’s recall election against Scott, her challenger said that “the lying has to stop.”

“Somehow, nationwide, we have to make lying wrong,” said Roberts, 69. “If you got caught in the lie there was a feeling of shame. It has to be wrong again.”

A message seeking comment was left Wednesday with Roberts. Scott and her attorney did not answer questions or provide comment before Tuesday’s election, and additional messages seeking comment were left Wednesday.

During preparations for her township’s November 2021 election, Scott said she had voting accuracy concerns and had considered paper ballots and a hand count before settling on using the same voting system.

The state intervened after Scott allegedly refused to allow a contractor to perform preventive maintenance and failed to conduct accuracy tests, among other issues. She was stripped of her duties running township elections in October 2021.

When the Hillsdale County clerk’s office took custody of an election tabulator and a voter-assist terminal from township offices to prepare for a public accuracy test, they discovered the tabulator’s tablet had been removed. It was later seized by Michigan State Police after Scott allegedly refused to turn it over.

One of Scott’s supporters, Adams Township Supervisor Mark Nichols, also lost in Tuesday’s recall election. Challenger Randy G. Johnson bested Nichols by 394 to 222 votes, unofficial results show.
 
gwb-trading said:
Let's see how things are going for the Republican party in Michigan.... Oh, wow. That Trumpy shiat is sure like some type of poison.

Michigan GOP faces existential crisis: ‘The state party is dead’
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/3970792-michigan-gop-crisis-karamo-kristina/
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Let's see how things are going at the Michigan GOP meeting. Apparently the agenda for this special meeting of the Michigan Republican party includes budget concerns, leadership concerns, testicle kicking, and broken ribs.

Scuffle breaks out at Michigan GOP state committee meeting
https://archive.ph/us7vq#selection-429.0-429.58

(The Detroit News) - Tensions within the Michigan Republican Party evolved into a physical altercation that drew police Saturday to the GOP's state committee meeting at a hotel in Clare.

As Michigan Republicans have been openly feuding over the party's direction and the leadership approach of new Chairwoman Kristina Karamo, some were frustrated that the beginning of Saturday's special meeting at the Doherty Hotel was limited to only members of the state committee.

In an interview, James Chapman, a Republican from Wayne County, said he traveled to Clare for the meeting but was forced to listen to it through a locked door.

Chapman said he and others said the Pledge of Allegiance together in the lobby outside the meeting and acknowledged he wiggled the knob of one door leading to the meeting room.

Eventually, Mark DeYoung, chairman of the Clare County Republican Party, heard the wiggling and walked over to the door, where he saw someone flip him off through a small window.
DeYoung opened the door.

"He kicked me in my balls as soon as I opened the door,” DeYoung said.

The scuffle intensified with Chapman running at DeYoung and slamming him into a chair, DeYoung said. DeYoung provided his account in a phone interview from an emergency room in Clare. DeYoung said he had suffered a broken rib.

Chapman alleged that DeYoung had said, "I’ll kick your a--" and swung at him. DeYoung denied those claims.

At one point, Chapman removed his own glasses, Chapman said.

“When you see me taking my glasses off, I’m ready to rock," Chapman said.

Chapman said he took DeYoung by the legs and knocked him over.

Chapman said multiple police officers were at the hotel after the incident. And DeYoung said he had spoken with the local sheriff and intended to press charges against Chapman.

"We’re so divided," DeYoung said from the hospital. “I just wish we could come together.”

A patrolman from the Clare city police department told The Detroit News that a complaint had been filed from the state committee meeting, but he was not authorized to provide any additional information Saturday afternoon.

Karamo, who became the Michigan Republican Party's chairwoman in February, has been facing increasing criticism from some party members for not providing more information about the money her administration is raising and spending.

In the weeks before Saturday's special meeting, Karamo removed Matt Johnson, the budget committee chairman, from his position overseeing the finances. At the time, Karamo said she had been asked to remove Johnson "due to a dereliction of duty and several other grievances."
Johnson said the spending that had been disclosed by the Michigan Republican Party had been "so far out of proportion with income as to put us on the path to bankruptcy."

"The budget committee was kept in the dark about almost all financial activity, even when we made numerous and specific requests," Johnson said in a June statement.

Karamo's own co-chairwoman, Malinda Pego, has called for a budget to be approved by the state committee as soon as possible. Pego wasn't in attendance for Saturday's meeting.

Some had suggested that the tension could lead to a push to remove Karamo, but that didn't play out on Saturday. Two sources who attended the meeting but declined to be identified because they weren't authorized to speak about it said there was no effort to unseat Karamo.
To remove her, it would take 75% of the state committee to support the move, which even opponents of Karamo acknowledge is a difficult threshold to achieve.

Karamo ran for secretary of state in November, losing to Democrat Jocelyn Benson by 14 percentage points.

The former educator from Oak Park has a difficult task ahead, trying to unite a divided party that is out of power in the state Legislature for the first time in four decades.
 
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