The Antrim County lawsuit dismissed Tuesday has provided a platform for misinformation about tabulators manufactured by Dominion Voting Systems.
An Antrim County judge dismissed an election fraud lawsuit Tuesday that has served as a vehicle to advance the unfounded conspiracy theory that tabulators manufactured by Dominion Voting Systems switched votes last fall from Donald Trump to Joe Biden. More than six months after the election, the lawsuit sought an audit of Michigan’s election results. Michigan election officials already undertook a statewide audit of the presidential election starting in January in which more than 18,000 randomly selected ballots from more than 1,300 jurisdictions were reviewed by clerks. The Bureau of Elections found that the tabulators counted ballots properly and uncovered no evidence of widespread issues with the machines. The judge declared the case moot, ruling Central Lake Township resident Bill Bailey who brought the lawsuit, had already been granted the forensic imaging of the election equipment he requested and there had also been a lawful election audit. “There is no reason to do it twice,” 13th Circuit Court Judge Kevin Elsenheimer said during the Tuesday court hearing. The lawsuit was filed Nov.23,2020, the same day that the Board of State Canvassers certified Michigan’s election results. It alleged that tabulators used in Antrim County were preprogrammed to switch votes. But in fact, a human error led to inaccurate election night reporting of the results that showed Biden winning the GOP stronghold. The error was caught and corrected the next morning, the results were certified and a hand recount of the ballots affirmed Trump’s victory. Trump won the county with more than 61% of the vote. More: No, Michigan hasn’t requested full forensic audit of election results There is no evidence of widespread fraud in the Nov.
