MI: GOP members of Delta County canvassing board refuse to certify recall results

Following overwhelming victories in a recall election last week, the Republican members of the Delta County Board of Canvassers are refusing to certify the election results.

“What they’re doing is putting doubt in our local election people, which is sad because these are our family and our neighbors and our friends and their honesty and integrity is being questioned by these people with absolutely no merit,” said Kelli Van Ginhoven, one of three challengers who defeated three Republican members of the Delta County Board of Commissioners on May 7.....

When the county canvassers met this past Tuesday, however, Republican members Bonnie Hakkola and LeeAnne Oman refused to certify. The board, consisting of two Democrats and two Republicans, has to produce at least three votes in order to certify.

Van Ginhoven tells Michigan Advance that the GOP canvassers cited, without evidence, irregularities in the vote totals based solely on the similarity across all three races.

“However, from our standpoint, from the three people who won the election, our numbers, our votes, are almost identical to the amount of people who signed the recall petitions,” said Van Ginhoven. “So, for example, in the district that I won, District 4, the number of people who signed the original recall petition was 823, and the votes I received were a little over 900. And that can be also represented with the other two districts. They’re almost identical. So while they’re talking about algorithms and being almost identical, we can say that they’re almost identical as well, but we have the factual basis on why that was. They are more or less blaming it on the tabulators.”





https://michiganadvance.com/2024/05/16/gop-members-of-delta-county-canvassing-board-refuse-to-certify-recall-results/