BREAKING: A former Republican attorney general candidate and another supporter of Donald Trump have been criminally charged in Michigan in connection with voting machine tampering after the 2020 election, according to court records.
A Michigan town clerk says he’ll respect a ban on his participation in elections while he faces charges related to election fraud.
The charges come as the former president is investigated for election interference in Georgia. Separately, Trumphe is a target of a federal investigation into efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. DePerno, who has been named by investigators as a “prime instigator” in the case, has previously denied wrongdoing and has accused the state attorney general of “weaponizing her office.” DePerno could not be reached immediately for comment by phone on Tuesday.by Attorney General Dana Nessel’s office. Investigators found that the tabulators were broken into and “tests” were performed on the equipment. They said that DePerno was there.
Charges were slow to come in the case, in part because prosecutors wanted clarification from a judge about what constitutes illegal possession of a voting machine. Some of the defendants argued that local clerks gave them permission to take the machines. In July, a state judge ruled that it’s a felony to take a machine without a court order or permission directly from the Secretary of State’s office.The Associated Press is an independent global news organization dedicated to factual reporting. Founded in 1846, AP today remains the most trusted source of fast, accurate, unbiased news in all formats and the essential provider of the technology and services vital to the news business.
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