Michigan is one of the states where former President Donald Trump and his lawyers, including former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, unsuccessfully tried to overturn Joe Biden’s victory in the 2020 presidential election. Reporter Mardi Link, in an article published by the Traverse City Record Eagle this week, discusses events in Michigan in late November — when some pro-Trump GOP operatives showed up to examine election data.
The operatives, according to Link, went to Antrim County, where they “identified themselves to township officials as representing Rudy Giuliani’s legal team” and “accessed official election data in at least one township, according to local officials.” On Nov. 27, Link notes, they examined “two separate paper totals tape” from a precinct tabulator.
Antrim County Clerk Sheryl Guy told the Record Eagle, “They made calls to township people on Thanksgiving Day to set all this up. They were strong-arming local clerks to get in and see those machines. Some clerks said ‘no’ or didn’t answer their phones. And as soon as we could, we sent out an e-mail telling the clerks not to let them in. Then, we learn after the fact, they’d already been in three different locations.” Continue reading.