Four voters, three clerks charged with double voting by Michigan AG

Voter integerity has been a key issues to voters following long-standing suspicions about the 2020 presidential election.

To that end, many states have begun to crack down on the potential contamination of the voting process within their own borders, some finding sufficient cause for prosecution, as Just The News reported.

This was the case when Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel (D) filed charges against four electors and three assistant clerks for supposedly double voting in the state's August primary election.

Nessel's office alleges that four residents of St. Clair Shores, Mich., requested ballots at their local polling location for the August primary election. They were, however, informed that the local registrar had already received their absentee ballots.

Case Details

Voters were allegedly given in-person votes by poll workers who were advised by assistant clerks to ignore the system warning, even though the Electronic Poll Book indicated that the ballots had been received.

Because the assistant clerks hadn't verified that the absentee ballots had been rejected, the in-person ballots were counted alongside the voters' absentee ballots.

On Friday, the attorney general's office said that four individuals had been charged with four separate felonies: one for offering to vote more than once, one for voting absentee and in-person, and one for each of those counts.

Two assistant clerks from St. Clair Shores were each indicted on a felony count of election return or record falsification, one count of absentee and in-person voting, and another count of offering to vote more than once.

Another Instance

The third assistant clerk from St. Clair Shores is also facing felony charges, but this time he faces two counts of each.

Following the decision by the Macomb County prosecutor not to press criminal charges, the matter is now being handled by Nessel's office.

“Despite common talking points by those who seek to instill doubt in our electoral process, double voting in Michigan is extremely rare,” Nessel said in a statement.

“There are procedures in place to ensure this does not happen and that is why it so rarely does. It took a confluence of events and decisions to allow these four people to double vote. Nevertheless, the fact that four incidents occurred in a municipality of this size raised significant concerns and is simply unheard of.”