DETROIT — Lawyers Matt DePerno and Stefanie Lambert gained the spotlight and fundraising dollars by touting their efforts to investigate voting machines, but a special prosecutor and a citizens grand
An Election Night mistake by a GOP clerk in northern Michigan ignited a global conspiracy theory and claims that Trump loyalists confiscated and examined voting machines in a quixotic bid to prove the 2020 election was rigged.
Not a lot of common ground between Nessel, a progressive Democrat, and DePerno, a Trump-endorsed attorney. She supports abortion rights, same-sex marriage and the integrity of the 2020 election. He opposes abortion and sees corruption in Nessel’s office and in Trump’s 2020 defeat.
DePerno is Michigan’s top election conspiracy theorist, spending years trying to prove Donald Trump won the state. Now, he’s locked in a tight race with Attorney General Dana Nessel, who has her own baggage.
Matthew DePerno’s political rise has been tied to a debunked election report. Some see parallels between his dive into 2020 conspiracies theories and his legal career.