Michigan’s attorney general has called for a special prosecutor to investigate allegations of a Republican-led effort to gain unauthorized access to voting equipment in the aftermath of the 2020 national election.
Attorney general Dana Nessel, a Democrat, called for the investigation on Friday after Michigan state police examined whether Matt DePerno, a lawyer and presumptive Republican candidate for the office, may have orchestrated the alleged effort.
It came after reports that Donald Trump supporters convinced clerks to give them access to the voting machines in an effort to prove that fraud cost the former president a second term. Such claims of a fraudulent election have repeatedly shown to be false.
Nessel’s office said on Friday that an investigation had led them to DePerno who, it claimed, had “orchestrated a coordinated plan to gain access to voting tabulators”. Calls for a special prosecutor were first published by Politico, citing a petition from Nessel.
The attorney general’s office claims that investigators found that voting tabulators had been removed, broken into and tested at hotels and short-term rentals.
“When this investigation began, there was not a conflict of interest,” Nessel’s petition said. “However, during the course of the investigation, facts were developed that DePerno was one of the prime instigators of the conspiracy.”
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