Michigan GOP canvassers under pressure to ignore votes, help Trump
LANSING — After losing in Wayne County, Republican activists are mounting a last-ditch effort to prop up President Donald Trump by urging GOP members on the Board of State Canvassers to refuse certification of the Michigan vote.
They have the full-throated support of the president, who continues to make unsubstantiated claims of voter fraud in a state where he unofficially lost to Democrat Joe Biden by roughly 146,000 votes.
"The Great State of Michigan, with votes being far greater than the number of people who voted, cannot certify the election," Trump wrote Wednesday in an erroneous tweet, equating fraud with likely clerical errors that caused poll book discrepancies in several precincts. "A Republican WIN!"
Trump actually suffered a significant setback Tuesday night when Republicans on the Wayne County Board of State Canvassers broke a deadlock and certified the local results, joining all 82 other Michigan counties in doing so.
The GOP canvassers had initially refused to certify the county election, an unprecedented step they said was warranted because several Detroit precincts were “out of balance,” meaning that the numbers of voters who signed into polling places did not match the number of ballots there.
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