{"id":1953316,"date":"2023-06-21T17:43:05","date_gmt":"2023-06-21T21:43:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-new-report-alleges-ann-arbor-violated-michigan-election-laws-during-2022-midterms\/"},"modified":"2023-06-21T17:45:13","modified_gmt":"2023-06-21T21:45:13","slug":"exclusive-new-report-alleges-ann-arbor-violated-michigan-election-laws-during-2022-midterms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-new-report-alleges-ann-arbor-violated-michigan-election-laws-during-2022-midterms\/","title":{"rendered":"New Report: Ann Arbor Accused of Breaking Michigan Election Laws in 2022 Midterms"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fexclusive-new-report-alleges-ann-arbor-violated-michigan-election-laws-during-2022-midterms%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1953316&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div>\n<div>\n<figure>\n      <!-- Image goes here --><br \/>\n    <\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<h2>A New Report Reveals Election Violations in Ann Arbor<\/h2>\n<p>A new report provided exclusively to The Federalist reveals how Ann Arbor, Michigan election officials allegedly violated state law during the 2022 midterm elections.<\/p>\n<p>Titled, <strong>\u201cAnn Arbor compromises election integrity during 2022 Election,\u201d<\/strong> the report issued by Michigan Fair Elections (MFE) and Pure Integrity Michigan Elections (PIME) alleges numerous violations of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/breaking-attorney-phil-kline-and-it-expert-j-r-carlson-presser-wednesday-exposing-mark-zuckerbergs-dark-money-cash-for-chaos\/\" title=\"BREAKING: Attorney Phil Kline and IT Expert J.R. Carlson Presser Wednesday Exposing Mark Zuckerberg\u2019s Dark Money Cash for Chaos\">state election law<\/a> by county officials regarding issues such as voter registration and \u201cdiscriminatory\u201d practices. The report\u2019s findings \u2014 which readers can examine below \u2014 are based on MFE and PIME\u2019s review of open-source documents, information obtained via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hgtv-stars-sister-elected-to-fix-up-school-district-plagued-by-critical-race-theory\/\" title=\"HGTV Star\u2019s Sister Elected to \u2018Fix Up\u2019 School District Plagued by Critical Race Theory\">open records requests<\/a>, and data from Michigan\u2019s Qualified Voter File.<\/p>\n<p>Among the notable issues raised in the analysis is Ann Arbor officials\u2019 purported acceptance of tardy ballots and registering of voters past the state\u2019s registration deadline. While <a href=\"http:\/\/www.legislature.mi.gov\/(S(hi02owuvk0mwh2bb1mqfna0z))\/printDocument.aspx?objectName=mcl-116-1954-XXVIII&#038;version=txt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Michigan law<\/a> stipulates that \u201ca person may apply in person at the clerk\u2019s office before 8 p.m. on election day to vote as an absent voter,\u201d time-stamped, voter history records reviewed by MFE and PIME allegedly show that more than 600 people \u2014 many of whom were college students registered at the University of Michigan\u2019s (U-M) satellite registration offices \u2014 \u201cwere registered to vote absentee after the 8 p.m. election day deadline.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Of these 600 late registrants, 120 purportedly cast absentee ballots the day after the 2022 election, on Nov. 9.<\/p>\n<p>A screenshot of a voter history file obtained via open records request appears to show such a discrepancy. While the file description says the voter was registered on Nov. 8, 2022, the file\u2019s time stamp indicates the voter was actually registered at 1:41 a.m. on Nov. 9, 2022.<\/p>\n<figure>\n    <!-- Image goes here --><br \/>\n  <\/figure>\n<h3>Potential Confusion and Erroneous Guidance<\/h3>\n<p>The report goes on to contend that potential confusion among voters about where and when they were permitted to vote may have come from Michigan\u2019s Democrat Secretary of State, <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/jocelyn-benson\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Jocelyn Benson<\/a>, who appears to have issued \u201cerroneous guidance\u201d to voters on Election Day.<\/p>\n<p>Less than two hours before polls closed on Nov. 8, 2022, Benson tweeted, <strong>\u201cWhether you\u2019re at your precinct in line to vote or at your local clerk\u2019s office in line to register and vote, as long as you are in line by 8p you can still register and vote.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As noted by MFE and PIME, however, such guidance seemingly contradicts <a href=\"http:\/\/www.legislature.mi.gov\/(S(dmdtawokqeql1rm04yj1hadf))\/mileg.aspx?page=GetObject&#038;objectname=mcl-168-663\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Michigan law<\/a>, which essentially allows for Election Day in-person voting at polling places, but not at clerk\u2019s offices or satellite registration offices.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEligible but unregistered individuals may register to vote at the clerk\u2019s office,\u201d the report reads. \u201cThey may pick up an absentee ballot at a clerk\u2019s office. Often, drop boxes are nearby, allowing voters to deposit their absentee ballot in an approved secrecy sleeve before the 8 p.m. deadline. But no one votes in person at a clerk\u2019s office.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Additional issues raised by MFE and PIME include Ann Arbor\u2019s purported use of \u201cdiscriminatory and partisan practices\u201d to register eligible voters. In the report, the groups document how Ann Arbor\u2019s satellite registration offices were allegedly placed in locations where the local demographics were more likely to favor Democrats. A satellite image shows how Ann Arbor purportedly placed two clerk satellite registration offices on the U-M\u2019s campus, one of which was seemingly located in the middle of U-M student housing locations.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, a separate image allegedly shows how such satellite offices were not similarly placed in close proximity to facilities such as senior living centers, \u201cwhose large numbers of residents,\u201d MFE and PIME argue, \u201cwould tend to have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-new-report-alleges-ann-arbor-violated-michigan-election-laws-during-2022-midterms\/\" title=\"New Report: Ann Arbor Accused of Breaking Michigan Election Laws in 2022 Midterms\">greater difficulty reaching election locations<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAccording to data published on the Ann Arbor Clerk\u2019s website, precincts containing at least one U-M student housing complex voted 94.7% for the Democratic candidate for governor in the November 2022 election,\u201d the report claims. \u201cConsidering this propensity to vote for one party, the placement of the satellite offices begs the question: Were the locations selected for partisan reasons?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Other alleged problems documented in the report include unlawful re-registration of voters and electioneering by local political parties.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Shawn Fleetwood is a staff writer for The Federalist and a graduate of the University of Mary Washington. He previously served as a state content writer for Convention of States Action and his work has been featured in numerous outlets, including RealClearPolitics, RealClearHealth, and Conservative Review. Follow him on Twitter @ShawnFleetwood<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ann Arbor, Michigan election officials allegedly breached state law in the 2022 midterm elections, as per a report exclusively obtained by The Federalist. Titled &#8220;Ann Arbor&#8217;s Election Integrity Compromised in 2022,&#8221; the report by Michigan Fair Elections (MFE) and Pure Integrity Michigan Elections (PIME) highlights multiple violations of state election regulations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":539,"featured_media":1953317,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[3990,4029,13649,29317,3997,3728,7750,4601,7408,3819],"class_list":["post-1953316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-3990","tag-accused","tag-ann","tag-arbor","tag-breaking","tag-election","tag-laws","tag-michigan","tag-midterms","tag-report"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1953316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/539"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1953316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1953316\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1953317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1953316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1953316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1953316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}