MI Sec. of State Seems to Admit Audit Was Never Conducted in Antrim Co., Misrepresentation Leads to Threats Against Plaintiff in Election Fraud Lawsuit

@CraigDMauger your false article just got my client threatened by one of your readers who specifically referenced this article. Well done sir! https://t.co/jrZZQwmroQ

— Matthew S. DePerno, Esq. (@mdeperno) February 25, 2021

The labeling of legitimate allegations of election fraud in Antrim County, MI, as “conspiracy theories” has brought threats against a plaintiff in the case, according to the plaintiff’s attorney.

“@CraigDMauger your false article just got my client threatened by one of your readers who specifically referenced this article. Well done sir!” Attorney Matthew DePerno wrote on Twitter yesterday.

DePerno took issue with an article written by Craig Mauger in The Detroit News that labeled accusations being made by DePerno’s client as “conspiracy theories.”

The client, Michigan resident William Bailey, brought a lawsuit against Dominion Systems that has resulted in the only forensic audit of Dominion voting machines conducted in the nation so far. That audit, performed by a seven-person team from the Allied Security Operations Group (ASOG) a government cybersecurity task force, found that Dominion machines are intentionally designed to influence elections.

The team found Dominion intentionally generates ballot errors so votes can be counted with little to no oversight, and that it achieves this by using a ballot-error rate that is orders of magnitude higher than what is allowed under federal guidelines.

ASOG’s findings, however, continue to be dismissed as “conspiracy theories.”

In December Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel pushed to make public the identities of the ASOG team members who conducted the examination of the machines. Nessel’s office has also threatened any attorney – including DePerno – who litigates election fraud cases with sanctions. Nessel, along with Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson have even brought disbarment proceedings against attorneys who argued fraud cases.

It is unclear what steps Michigan Democratic officials have taken to investigate any of the claims made in ASOG’s report.

2. Michigan’s state-run media ignored this part of the hearing, but instead declared victory for Dana Nessel. Having now reached out to several reporters, I have learned that the document production issue was not deemed news-worthy (i.e. must be hidden from public view).

— Matthew S. DePerno, Esq. (@mdeperno) January 12, 2021

Interestingly, Benson now seems to be admitting during discovery in the Antrim County case that a previously publicized audit of the results was not an audit at all. Instead she refers to it as a “post-election hand-tally” and a “post-election risk-limiting audit.” DePerno says these descriptions of the procedures differ from the ones Benson and others in the media have been offering until now.

“Benson advertised the Dec 17, 2020 count as an ‘audit.’ Not as a ‘hand recount’ or a ‘risk limiting’ audit,” DePerno told ITN today.

“A ‘risk-limiting audit’ is carried out by randomly selecting a statistically significant number of precincts and ballots for hand recount to determine if they confirm the outcome of an election within a pre-determined margin of error. She did not ‘randomly select’ Antrim County. She specifically picked it and advertised an audit of the entire county. Therefore, it does not meet the definition of a ‘risk-limiting’ audit,” he added.

The Michigan Department of State Bureau of Elections lays out clear requirements for a full post-election audit including a “thorough review of procedures performed before, during, and after the conduct of an election, including a review of voted ballots with a hand tally of select contests,” as well as “the review of voted ballots [to] verify the equipment used to count votes worked properly and yielded the correct result.” These were not conducted in Antrim County.

The hand-recount conducted in Antrim resulted in a gain of 12 votes for President Trump, a much publicized outcome that purported to show the process was relatively accurate.

But this was after an original 7,000-vote swing was discovered that was responsible for initially awarding the County to Joe Biden. (President Trump actually won the county by nearly 4,000 votes.)

Democratic state officials as well as the mainstream media have repeatedly called this the result of a “human error” that was found and quickly corrected.

DePerno says that is not the case. “It didn’t happen by human error. It happened through a computer program called Dominion Voting Systems,” he said in December.

It’s this constant misrepresentation by officials, and in press reports, that caused Bailey to be threatened. Claiming it is baseless “caused someone to call my client and in a very threatening manner tell him he needs to drop his lawsuit,” DePerno said.

DePerno is demanding a retraction and an apology from the journalist who wrote the stories.

In January a judge ordered Benson to produce a trove of documents regarding the 2020 election. The documents include communications between state officials as well as any communications between officials and big tech companies like Google and Facebook.