The office of Michigan’s Attorney General, Dana Nessel, has confirmed there was a state investigation into a large number of voter registrations suspected to be fraudulent, with the case being referred to the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) in 2021.
Danny Wimmer, Nessel’s press secretary, recently admitted a number of some 8,000 to 10,000 voter registration forms delivered to the Muskegon clerk by a “black female” in the run-up to 2020 presidential elections “were found to be suspicious or fraudulent.”
Some of the irregularities included a number voter registrations being written in the same handwriting and addresses on multiple forms being “invalid or non-existent.”
The local Muskegon authorities referred the attempted fraud to Michigan’s Bureau of Elections, which, in turn, referred the case to both the Attorney General as well as the state police. State officials thereafter referred the unresolved investigation to the FBI in March 2021 due to the intelligence agency’s national jurisdiction, though the FBI refused to confirm or deny whether an investigation took place.
Wimmer, however, stated the “attempted fraud” was caught before November 3 and that none of the suspicious or fraudulent materials were “incorporated into the state’s qualified voter file,” and the effort, therefore, had “no effect on any ballot requests or associated processes.”
