Yet another lawsuit related to the 2020 presidential election is wending its way through the courts, six months after the election and nearly four months into Joe Biden’s presidency. On Monday, Judge Kevin Elsenheimer, of the 13th Circuit Court, heard arguments in the voter fraud case in Antrim County, Michigan. That case — brought to the court in late November by Bill Bailey, who lives in the state’s Central Lake Township, alleges that the county committed voter fraud in the way ballots were counted in the presidential election.
While many such cases have been brought (and dismissed), the Antrim County case is one of the few still awaiting adjudication. One interesting thing about this case is that President Donald Trump won Antrim County, so the outcome of this case will not change the results of the election. But — if allowed to continue and if decided in favor of the plaintiff — it would prove that the Dominion voting machines in question were used to manipulate the final count in Biden’s favor.
Matthew DePerno — the lawyer representing Bailey — tweeted Friday that 1,061 phantom ballots were discovered in the Antrim County count.
DePerno wrote in a recent filing that a recount in December tallied 15,962 ballots, but only 14,901 votes were shown in the Michigan secretary of state’s database, meaning 1,061 votes don’t exist on voter rolls. Further irregularities — referenced in DePerno’s tweet and filings — are a near 100 percent voter turnout for those voters between the ages of 65 and 80 and one-in-five ballots being sent to P.O. boxes. DePerno argues that these irregularities serve as just cause for the court to order a forensic audit of the county results of the 2020 presidential election.
Trump posted Monday about the Antrim County case on the blog he started after he was jettisoned from major social-media platforms in the wake of the election. In that post, he calls the filings “a bombshell” and refers to the case as the “major Michigan Election Fraud case.” He also states, “The Fake News media refuses to cover the greatest Election Fraud in the history of our Country,” adding, “They have lost all credibility, but ultimately, they will have no choice!”
In Monday’s court proceedings — which were held via Zoom owing to the ongoing paranoia about COVID-19 — Judge Elsenheimer granted a defense motion to cancel more than a dozen subpoenas seeking extensive township-level voting data, but withheld a decision on outright dismissing the lawsuit. He is expected to reach a decision as early as May 18.
Dominion released a statement claiming that all allegations of voter fraud related to their machines are fabrications by “conspiracy theorists” who are “deceiving voters about the election in order to raise money.” That backhanded denial duly noted, it is of interest that Antrim County has abandoned the use of Dominion machines since the November elections. In fact, the county’s commissioners voted in March to conduct a hand count of ballots for the May primary election.
MSN News reported:
Commissioners in Antrim County rejected a request last week from the chief election officer, who sought $5,080 to hire consultants to prepare their Dominion machines for the May 4 contest, and voted unanimously to keep the equipment “on ice.”
And:
Antrim County Clerk Sheryl Guy, who issued the request, said the machines were not “certified for use” as required by the Michigan secretary of state because of a forensic examination conducted in December as part of the November election lawsuit against the county.
So, Dominion machines are not “certified for use in Michigan” as a result of the “forensic examination conducted in December” that was conducted as part of this lawsuit. But only “conspiracy theorists” who are “deceiving voters about the election in order to raise money” doubt the integrity of those machines?
Given the lack of logic and the insane denials and obfuscations offered by those who swear that nothing whatsoever was wrong with the 2020 election, the fate of this case remains to be seen. The judge may ignore logic and reason and dismiss the case as other judges have done with many such cases. Or the case may continue to move forward and wind up proving that Biden and his accomplices stole the election.
But given what is now known by audits that have been performed, one thing that is clear is this — Dominion machines are not trustworthy and should never have been used in the election. And they never should be used again.
