LANSING, MI (MPRN) The Michigan Department of State began an audit of the November election Monday.
Audits are performed after every election in the state, but officials say this one is even more rigorous. Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson planned to roll out this new type of audit months before President Donald Trump and Republican supporters falsely claimed there was widespread fraud in the November election. She says the audit is a more statistically reliable way of affirming the ballots were accurately counted.
Benson acknowledges political leaders will need to do more to get people to trust election results again, quoting Senator Mitt Romney: