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People of the State of Michigan v. Berden et al. is a state criminal prosecution concerning the Trump fake electors plot in Michigan.The sixteen defendants are accused of producing and attempting to use a false certificate of ascertainment containing electoral votes for Donald Trump, who had lost the 2020 U.S. presidential election in Michigan.
Trump pressured the Justice Department to falsely announce it had found election fraud, and he attempted to install a new acting attorney general who had drafted a letter falsely asserting such election fraud had been found, in an attempt to persuade the Georgia legislature to convene and reconsider its Biden electoral votes.
Benson’s office clarified that only U.S. citizens can vote. The suspect was arrested and charged with attempting to vote as an unauthorized elector and perjury for making a false voter registration.
Assistant clerk Molly Brasure, 31, is charged with two counts of falsifying election returns or records, two counts of voting absentee and in person, and one count of offering to vote more than once.
The Trump campaign filed the most post-election lawsuits related to the 2020 United States presidential election in the swing states of Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. It was a strategic decision to file lawsuits in these states that were too close to call during the night of election day and remained uncalled ...
Conservative activists searching for traces of voter fraud are seizing on posts made on social media misinterpreting Michigan’s voter file. In a post to X that had been seen more than 5 million ...
On November 16, 2020, registered voters and poll challengers from Michigan sued Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson in federal district court. The plaintiffs claimed the secretary enabled fraud on election day, and asked to block certification of the vote results until an audit could be performed.
Michigan is one of several toss-up states in the presidential contest that could decide the election. Trump won the state in 2016 by less than 11,000 votes, or about two-tenths of a percentage point.