A former clerk of the Detroit suburb of Hamtramck who told undercover investigators that city officials were illegally trafficking ballots and “bullying” voters into handing over their ballots told The Federalist he stands by his accusations.
“These guys go door-to-door and they take peoples’ ballots. They bully them into giving their ballots over,” said Fraser City Clerk August Gitschlag — who served as Hamtramck clerk from 2013 to 2021 — to an undercover Project Veritas journalist. “They’re harvesters.”
Multiple people filmed in a Project Veritas video published Monday accused city officials in majority-Muslim Hamtramck of ballot harvesting and other election crimes. Ballot harvesting is illegal in Michigan.
In the early 1900s, the Detroit suburb of Hamtramck was a Polish enclave, but today, it is the only Muslim-majority city in America. The Democrat stronghold elected an all-Muslim city council in November 2021, and the body voted in May to “divest” from Israel.
Tight-knit immigrant communities like Hamtramck are often more susceptible to voter fraud, Gitschlag told an undercover journalist.
“They can run the show, intimidate… say, like, ‘If you don’t vote for me, your cousin has nowhere to live next year when he comes in,’” Gitschlag said in the video.
Partisans circle neighborhoods with absentee ballot applications, which they collect and drop off at city hall, according to Gitschlag. Then they come back to get the votes.
“They go back to the person’s house. They say, ‘Give it up, sign the envelope, give me the ballot,’” Gitschlag said.
Gitschlag told The
