Wayne Co Election Board GOP Members Rescind Their Certification Votes

It’s been a wild 24 hours or so in Wayne County, Michigan, where the Board of Canvassers initially refused to certify the county’s results from the 2020 General Election, as Nick Arama covered. The vote was 2-2, along party lines, with the Republican members voting against certification. Those members, William Hartmann and Monica Palmer, said there were too many irregularities in the results, including that “absentee ballot poll books at 70% of Detroit’s 134 absentee counting boards were found to be out of balance without explanation.” After the vote, other members of the board and the public – and even Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson – harassed and threatened Hartmann and Palmer for nearly two hours until the two relented and voted to certify. Here’s one example of the harassment:-- More...