According to published sources, the Michigan Attorney General’s office has requested that a special prosecutor examine whether a Republican candidate for state attorney general and others should be prosecuted in connection with an attempt to get access to voting equipment after the 2020 election.
According to the Detroit News, Attorney General Dana Nessel’s office has requested that the Michigan Prosecuting Attorneys Coordinating Council appoint a special prosecutor to consider charges against nine people, including Republican attorney general candidate Matt DePerno, Lake City state Rep. Daire Rendon, and Barry County Sheriff Dar Leaf.
According to the newspaper, the claims were detailed in a letter submitted Friday to Democratic Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson by Nessel’s principal deputy attorney general, Christina Grossi.
According to the letter, these entailed convincing municipal clerks to give over voting tabulators, breaking into them, and doing “testing.”
The request for a special prosecutor was filed due to a possible conflict of interest, since Nessel would almost certainly face DePerno in the November election.
Former President Donald Trump has backed DePerno, a lawyer. The political newbie backs Trump’s bogus assertions about his 2020 defeat to President Biden in the battleground state. DePerno received the support of Michigan Republicans during their state convention in April. He’ll be formally nominated in a second convention later this month, but it’ll be a formality.
“Dana Nessel is well aware that she is losing this race,” DePerno’s campaign manager, Tyson Shepard, said in a statement Sunday night, according to The News. “She is anxious to win this election at any cost and is now focusing on her political opponent, DePerno. Her acts are immoral and will serve as more proof to voters that she is unsuited for government.”
According to the petition, five tabulators were seized from Roscommon and Missaukee counties in northern Michigan, and Barry County in western Michigan, and Ben Cotton, Jeff Lenberg, Douglas Logan, and James Penrose “broke into the tabulators and conducted ‘tests’ on the equipment.”
Cotton, Lenberg, Logan, and Penrose have all been engaged in attempts to call the 2020 election into doubt. Cotton, Lenberg, and Penrose were named as experts by DePerno in an Antrim County case, according to The News.
Logan, the creator of Cyber Ninjas, was implicated in a results audit in Maricopa County, Arizona.
The News said that Leaf did not reply quickly to a request for comment on Sunday, and Rendon could not be contacted.
Obtaining unauthorized possession of a voting machine used in an election is a crime punishable by five years in jail, according to the publication.