Michigan GOP Attorney General Candidate Under Investigation by His Opponent for 2020 Voting Machine Scheme
Matthew DePerno is under investigation by his opponent's office for allegedly illegally seizing and "testing" voting machines from several Michigan counties.

The presumptive Republican nominee for Michigan attorney general, Matthew DePerno, is under investigation for meddling with voting equipment after the 2020 election in search of evidence of election fraud. According to a petition for a special prosecutor filed on August 5 by current Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel, DePerno and two other people, including state Rep. Daire Rendon (R–Lake City), allegedly "orchestrated a coordinated plan to gain access to voting tabulators" in several Michigan counties. Once they obtained the machines, the trio performed "tests" on them, including running fake ballots through the machines.
DePerno claims that there was anti-Trump voter fraud in Michigan during the 2020 election. He filed a lawsuit on behalf of a Michigan resident alleging sweeping voter fraud in the presidential election. In April, a Michigan appeals court dismissed DePerno's lawsuit. DePerno has said that "when I am elected, I will keep my word to prosecute the people who corrupted the 2020 election and allowed fraud to permeate the entire election system."
According to Nessel's petition to the Prosecuting Attorneys Coordinating Council seeking the appointment of a special prosecutor for the case, DePerno and others took the machines they acquired to hotel rooms and Airbnb locations, where several people "broke into the tabulators and performed 'tests' on the equipment." Nessel's office claims that DePerno was present for at least one of these "testing" sessions.
Nessel has requested a special prosecutor in the case because she and DePerno will face each other in November's general election. Nessel insists that the investigation, which has been conducted by her office and the Michigan State Police, is not politically motivated. "When this investigation began there was not a conflict of interest," wrote Nessel's office in the petition. "However, during the course of the investigation, facts were developed that DePerno was one of the prime instigators of the conspiracy."
In response to the petition, DePerno's campaign tweeted a statement on August 7 claiming that "the petition itself is entirely an incoherent liberal fever dream of lies."
Many Republican politicians seem committed to advancing the conspiracy theory that President Joe Biden won the 2020 general election only because of voter fraud. Whether deeply or opportunistically held, this idea allegedly led DePerno to engage in illegal activity despite the fact that American elections are very secure.
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Their not republicans, they're fantasists.
Would the adults in the room do us all a favor and tell these freaks to shut up and back to whatever they did with their sad lives before politics?
Whose sock puppet are you?
Whatever, this troll persona lacks subtlety.
It might be that AAA guy that claims to be a gay black man. He was posting a lot yesterday and no one was giving him the time to day except to (correctly) mock him.
If it is Ali SnAkbar he seems more comfortable in this persona. The cat pee line below is almost funny. AAA is forced, unfunny and never clever.
Hello
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"This was the cleanest election evah! There's not a shred of evidence to the contrary. And if you try to develop any such evidence, we'll arrest you!"
In a way, I admire people who nakedly admit that they think representative government is for pussies or against God's will or whatever.
The rest of your are simply invertebrates.
Completely irrelevant to any point made. No real wit or humor. More emotional than the post replied to. Generic claims posed. And right off with the insult.
As trolls go, I'd give you a 2/10. In other words, you failed. Of course, that's something I'm pretty sure you've gotten used to in life.
Notice your fellow "libertarians" talking about how they're done with elections and the time for violence is here in the Mar-a-Lago thread?
There's always been a brand of libertarian whose commitment to freedom is just a fig leaf for their fantasies of murdering their fellow Americans.
I know a guy who trains in the woods with his militia every month. Biggest pushover I've ever met. His bitterness with life became his hobby and he calls it politics.
What a total and complete loser.
What a total and complete loser.
Pot meet Kettle.
You know no such guy. stfu
"Information gathered from the allegedly breached machines in Richfield Township and Roscommon County later appeared in subpoenas and court documents that DePerno submitted in a failed lawsuit over results reporting errors in Antrim County."
https://www.bridgemi.com/michigan-government/deperno-others-linked-vote-machine-tampering-case-headed-special-prosecutor
Maybe if you're gonna file a spurious lawsuit you might take a hot second and be sure you don't incriminate yourself in the process?
As Michael Malice pointed out in the aftermath of the 2020 election, within two weeks, media organizations were declaring the 2020 election to be "the most secure election in American history."
Malice indicated (correctly) that a statement like that couldn't possibly be based in any observed facts. It may be true by accident. It may be in fact true that the 2020 election WAS the most secure in American history, but there was no way that any media organization could actually KNOW it to be true, just two weeks after an election in one of the most complex and byzantine election systems in the free world... with thousands of precincts reporting in, each with their own system for tabulation and voting rules and laws dictated at that local level. There was simply no way for any media organization to have audited every localized election process and validated the ballots. It simply wasn't possible. So when the media declared the election "secure" five minutes after the election, they were gas lighting you.
Michael Malice said it?
Shit, let's fly the black flag and hang Mike Pence.
lol
Operating/testing a voting machine is illegal activity? "Tests"?? Like seeing if fake ballots would work? The horror!!!
Operating/testing a voting machine is illegal activity?
Without permission? Yes.
Voter fraud is impossible.
if someone is concerned with potential fraud, how does it make any sense to let any wingnut take them to a secret place and screw with the machines?
seriously.... how does anyone who thinks there might have been fraud support opening the door to make fraud easier?
There are no rules, only weapons.
I know Trump chanted 'Lock her up!" but he never actually tried to do it.
It seems like all these 'prosecution of your political opponent' cases come from one side.
Yeah… I’m trying to figure out when this became the norm. I’m pretty sure Trump had an impeachment trial over something similar.
I was told it was wrong to investigate your political opponents.
The presumptive Republican nominee for Michigan attorney general, Matthew DePerno, is under investigation for meddling with voting equipment after the 2020 election in search of evidence of election fraud.
It Is Known that meddling with voting equipment is supposed to happen BEFORE the election, not after.
You have no standing and smell like cat pee.
You have no standing
Well played.
Oh, and we are NOT dickless.
The handle, to me, sounds like a two bit, homeless tranny whore complaining that she can't attract a better clientele. If she's spent a lifetime seeking out libertarian dick and can't find any, who are we to question xer life experiences?
So.. sarcasmic?
In 2000, Democrats and the left began shrieking about Bush not having really won. They continued shrieking about this, getting louder after the 2004 re-election, until Obama was elected--whereupon it became a sullen mumble.
Hillary Clinton and her partisans still insist that she was cheated out of the presidency. And do so also to this day, two years after the Biden junta took the White House.
In both cases neither Bush nor Trump used the power of the federal government to try to silence inquiry. Democrat and leftist protestors were not rounded up and jailed without trial--despite the wanton destruction and arson they engaged in.
Why?
Because they'd legitimately won.
Within moments of taking control of the presidency, the Biden junta had erected fences and called in the military to form an armed shield. People who questioned the integrity of the election were jailed, beaten and killed. People lost their jobs and access to their bank accounts. To this day, questioning the 2020 election is an action that can see the coordinated weight of the media, the democrats, and the left used to destroy lives.
Why?
Are these the actions of people who have legitimately won?
Or are they they actions of people who fear exposure so much that they'll kill to protect themselves.
The answer is obvious.
or maybe, a line was crossed when there was a significant effort to overthrow the legitimate result of an election culminating with a mob taking over the capitol.....
all those who cried about bush never crossed that line.
those unable to accept Hillary's loss never crossed that line.
the worst we had to deal with with the sore losers of the past was the stupid Mueller report. nobody stole any tabulation machines. (and, if they had.... they would have suffered the same consequences.)
or maybe, a line was crossed when there was a significant effort to overthrow the legitimate result of an election culminating with a mob taking over the capitol.....
To which 'takeover do you refer? The ones in 2020 where that mob burned DC? or the several earlier ones during Trump's tenure in which the Senate office building was occupied or the Supreme Court was attacked for days on end? Or the one where that mob rioted in DC on trump's inauguration?
all those who cried about bush never crossed that line.
This is incorrect.
all those who cried about bush crossed that line repeatedly, violently, and with impunity
There. Now it reflects reality.
those unable to accept Hillary's loss never crossed that line.
Do you understand that you ignoring violent rioting does not, no matter how much you want it to, mean it didn't happen?
the worst we had to deal with with the sore losers of the past was the stupid Mueller report. nobody stole any tabulation machines. (and, if they had.... they would have suffered the same consequences.)
Again, ignoring rioting doesn't make it go away. But beyond that, this entire issue is the product of Democrats screeching that Republican victories --particularly when the Democrats have cheated-- are illegitimate.
No one had to steal tabulation machines on the left, they had them beforehand. The people who took them were trying to verify that they had not been tampered with--because Democrats have spent the last few decades trying to make ballot verification impossible. In this way 'inserted' ballots appear just as legitimate as valid ballots.
“ a line was crossed when there was a significant effort to overthrow…”
I’m gonna stop you right there. In no scenario is a couple hundred unarmed protesters a significant anything.
Ironically, the Democrat secretary of state was actually ruled to have broken election laws. Weird that wasn’t included in the article. I wonder why not?
Hahaha, I’m just kidding, I don’t wonder.
https://thefederalist.com/2021/03/17/judge-rules-michigan-secretary-of-state-violated-state-law-with-absentee-ballot-order/
Dana the drunk has obviously been hitting the bloody Marys again. She needs to attend Al Anon or get treatment for her mental illness. Better yet she needs to be removed.
This is the new tactic that is going to be used time and again against Republican opponents. The attack by the FBI(Feral Bureau of Instigation) on Trump's home is only the beginning. Now the dems are weaponizing the IRS. Who knows what's next? Concentration camps for their political enemies?
It's you who they are coming for.