Left-wing district attorneys will get to decide whether or not to investigate claims of election problems in Michigan, thanks to two bills Democrat Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed into law on Monday.
Democrats championed SB 603 and SB 604, which dictate that a recount can only occur under a narrow set of conditions: There must be an allegation of “error” – not fraud – and anyone alleging error must prove it would have changed the outcome of the election. As The Federalist has previously reported, the bill also doubles the fee to request a recount.
Whitmer claimed the bills “ensur[e] that the security of every vote is protected and that losing parties cannot stop the winners from taking office.”
These new laws, which already make it prohibitively difficult to conduct a recount, eliminate the bipartisan Board of State Canvassers’ power to investigate fraud, instead forcing them to delegate the task to partisan county prosecutors or the partisan attorney general.
In Detroit, the Wayne County Prosecutor’s Office – headed by Democrat District Attorney Kym Worthy – doesn’t even handle election fraud cases, according to Assistant Prosecuting Attorney Maria Miller.
“We do not handle election fraud cases in Wayne County,” Miller wrote to The Federalist in an email. “Those are referred to the Michigan attorney general.”
Detroit has a long history of election problems. Local outlet The Detroit News found in 2016 that more votes were cast than there were voters in one-third of the city’s precincts. And in 2019, a lawsuit claimed the city
