Judge dismisses final Michigan election fraud suit, says that doesn’t mean there weren’t problems
Updated May 18, 2021;
Posted May 18, 2021
Screenshot of a court hearing during which an Antrim County Judge dismissed an election fraud case pending since November.
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The last of many election fraud lawsuits filed in Michigan following the November 2020 presidential election was dismissed by an Antrim County Circuit Court judge Tuesday.
Antrim County Circuit Judge Kevin Elsenheimer, a former Republican state lawmaker, said the plaintiff, William Bailey of Central Lake Township, had either been granted what he sought or is not entitled to further relief in the case.
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A Michigan judge dismissed one of the last remaining lawsuits by Trump supporters challenging the 2020 election.
A voter inserts her ballot into a machine in Detroit on Election Day last year.Credit.Brittany Greeson for The New York Times
May 18, 2021
A Michigan state judge on Tuesday dismissed one of the last, high-profile court cases questioning the results of the 2020 presidential election, a case former President Donald J. Trump cited to claim fraud after unofficial results in one county initially assigned some votes for him to President Biden.
The plaintiff, William Bailey, a local resident, and his lawyer, Matthew S. DePerno, had sought to use the case to cast doubt on the vote nationwide, suggesting that a flawed count by Dominion Voting System machines in Antrim County, Mich., meant that all such machines were open to manipulation and deliberate fraud. The suit was also an attempt to force another statewide audit.
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