Barry County Sheriff Dar Leaf, suspected of wrongdoing in a vote machine tampering case, wanted to seize tabulators in three Michigan communities, according to search warrant requests obtained by Bridge.
Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel sent a petition requesting a special prosecutor criminally investigate Republican attorney general candidate Matthew DePerno, among others, for engaging in a “conspiracy” to break into voting machines.
The Barry County sheriff files suit claiming state police are interfering with his probe. Local officials say they wish Leaf would probe ‘some of the other situations in the county, everything from drugs to murders to God knows what.”
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Being our semi-regular weekly survey of what’s goin’ down in the several states where, as we know, the real work of governmentin’ gets done, and where the sky, too, is moving under you.
We begin in Kentucky, where a local dispute has within it one of the saddest subtexts you can imagine, and one that is a perfect look at the kind of country we have become. It has to do with an old cemetery and goes on from there. From the
Superintendent William Sexton and board Chairman Mark Hoskins received emails last week that contained threats over the cemetery move, said Sharon Allen, attorney for the Clay County Board of Education. The emails came late July 16 and early July 17, Allen said.
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