Michigan's Out AG Seeks Prosecution of Opponent for Election Tampering
Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel has requested that a special prosecutor be appointed to bring charges against several people she says conspired to tamper with the state’s 2020 election results, and they include her likely opponent in this year’s election.Nessel, a lesbian, was Michigan’s first statewide elected official from the LGBTQ+ community, and one of the first out statewide officials anywhere in the nation.
A Democrat, she was first elected in 2018 and is running for reelection this year.Matthew DePerno, a lawyer from Kalamazoo, is one of the people Nessel says engaged in a conspiracy to change the Michigan vote count in the last presidential election.
Joe Biden won Michigan’s 16 electoral votes, having received 50.6 percent of the popular vote to Donald Trump’s 47.8 percent.
Trump and his allies have repeatedly made false claims that there was widespread voter fraud in Michigan and some other swing states that went for Biden.
