Trending: #WalkAway Founder Brandon Straka Asks Screeching Lawyer With Vulgar Sign Standing In Front of Mar-a-Lago What She's Protesting... Her Uneducated Responses Are HILARIOUS! [VIDEO] Then reports came in that state election officials had dispatched a computer programmer to adjust Ann Arbor's voting systems to accept votes for the November 8 election from people who registered to vote in the early morning hours of November 9.
Registered voters who are in line to vote in person may cast counted ballots, but previously unregistered voters may not register and vote after 8 PM, nor may anyone vote absentee after 8 PM. To be clear: You are not allowed to register to vote in an election after 8 PM. You are not allowed vote absentee after 8 PM. Volunteers from Pure Integrity Michigan Elections and Michigan Fair Elections decided to investigate.
Voter History File showing a November 9 Registration for the November 8 Election The time-stamped voter history record shows 600 voters were registered to vote after the deadline of 8 PM, November 8.
Absentee voting versus in-person voting Michigan Compiled Law 168.731(3) states, "A person may apply in person at the clerk's office before 8 PM on election day to vote as an absent voter." To be clear, the law does not allow the receipt of absentee ballots after the 8 PM deadline on Election Day.
Whether through ignorance or malfeasance, Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson issued inaccurate guidance, tweeting: "Whether you're at your precinct in line to vote or at your local clerk's office in line to register and vote, as long as you are in line by 8p, you can still register and vote." Contrary to the secretary's mis-, mal- or disinformation, a person must be registered to vote before 8:00 PM in order to cast a ballot in the current election.
The law states that polling places are the in-person voting locations "In which the election officials, challengers, voting machines or ballot boxes and voting booths, and persons in the actual process of voting, are located." MCL 168.663 Polling places.
The legislative body of each city, village, and township shall provide for and cause to be erected in the room where any election is to be held in each election precinct of such city, village, or township, a suitable barrier which shall be so placed as to separate from the rest of the room the area in which the election officials, challengers, voting machines or ballot boxes and voting booths, and persons in the actual process of voting, are located.
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