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The Michigan Department of State accused the team that conducted an audit of Dominion Voting Systems equipment in Antrim County of participating in a cover-up.
In a statement released shortly after President Trump cited the report in claiming that there was a 68% error rate in Michigan Voting Machines, a department spokesman said: “Their cover-up is a tactic of misinformation campaigns that seek to hide the truth.”
The spokesman, Jake Rollow, also noted that the authors didn’t “explicitly” share “the data and methods by which they arrived at their conclusions a standard used by all actual experts in election administration technology they must be assumed to be completely false,” and he said the state has “numerous protections in place that would have caught anything like what is claimed falsely in this partisan report.”
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LANSING A Michigan judge decided Monday that supporters of President Donald Trump may publicly release and discuss information they’ve collected from an analysis of voting machines and data in Antrim County.
But Erik Grill, an assistant attorney general representing Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, warned that the analysis is “inaccurate, incomplete and misleading.”
“There’s no reason to hide,” Grill said during a virtual court hearing Monday morning. “There is nothing to hide.”
Antrim County with about 23,000 residents has gained the spotlight in the push from Trump’s supporters to try to discredit the results of the Nov. 3 election. Because of a failure to update voting software, President-elect Joe Biden was initially thousands of votes ahead of Trump in the Republican-leaning county’s unofficial results.
Trump: Audit of Dominion Machines in Antrim County ‘Shows Massive Fraud’
The preliminary report of an audit of Dominion Voting Systems machines in a county in Michigan is big news and shows the election results are wrong, President Donald Trump asserted Tuesday.
“This is BIG NEWS. Dominion Voting Machines are a disaster all over the Country. Changed the results of a landslide election. Can’t let this happen,” Trump wrote in a social media statement, sharing a post that included the report.
In another, he wrote that “many Trump votes were routed to” Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, adding: “True all over the Country. This Fake Election can no longer stand. Get moving Republicans.”
Dominion CEO to Testify in First Post-Election Appearance Before a State Legislature
The CEO of Dominion Voting Systems, a voting machine and software company, will answer questions from legislators in Michigan on Tuesday.
It will be the first time John Poulos has answered questions since the Nov. 3 election, which saw 28 states use Dominion products.
Poulos could face questioning about an audit released Monday that concluded Dominion’s system “is intentionally and purposefully designed with inherent errors to create systemic fraud and influence election results.”
Data firm Allied Security Operations Group examined machines and software in Antrim County this month, saying Dominion products were to blame for the infamous vote flip that occurred in the county.