Report classifies one-fifth of Michigan Legislature as 'election deniers'

(Michigan Advance) Seven states, including Michigan, that were the focal points of Republican efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election have more than 200 legislators labeled in a new report as being “election deniers.”

States United Action, a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization with a mission to protect elections, issued the report Thursday using data collected with the assistance of Penn State University’s McCourtney Institute for Democracy. It found 202 “election deniers” currently serving as state legislators in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, New Mexico, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.

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In Michigan, the report identified 31 state legislators, all Republicans, who fit within that description, noting that together they make up 21% of the 148-person body and part of the leadership in both the state House and Senate.

Among the key examples listed in the report were three current members of the Michigan Legislature identified by the U.S. House January 6 Select Committee as having agreed to support the fake-elector scheme that sought to overturn Trump’s 2020 loss to President Joe Biden. They were state Sens. Jon Bumstead (R-Newaygo), Rick Outman (R-Six Lakes) and Roger Victory (R-Husonville). .................(more)

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