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DOJ seeks 2024 ballots from Wayne County amid fraud claims

FILE - Election officials huddle around a table as absentee ballots are processed at the central counting board, Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2020, in Detroit.
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FILE - Election officials huddle around a table as absentee ballots are processed at the central counting board, Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2020, in Detroit.

U.S. Justice Department officials claim the county surrounding Detroit has a “history of fraud convictions and other allegations.”

Michigan officials say the few examples of fraud cited by the Justice Department, out of millions of votes cast, are not connected to the 2024 election.

Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, who is also running for governor as a Democrat, told MS NOW she believes President Trump is trying to manufacture fear among voters.

“Not just to sow false seeds of doubt about who won those elections, but to try to interfere with the counting process, which was already tried by the way in Detroit in 2020, and otherwise try to interfere with the legitimacy of our secure elections.”

Michigan’s Republican-controlled state senate found no evidence of widespread or systemic fraud in the 2020 election.

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