(CNN)Months after Joe Biden's 2020 victory over Donald Trump in Michigan had been certified, and confirmed by audits and voting reviews, a clerk in rural Barry County received an unusual and confusing request from Matthew DePerno, an attorney in Kalamazoo.
DePerno, who'd filed a lawsuit on behalf of a local resident claiming voting-machine fraud in Antrim County, more than 200 miles to the north, sent the clerk a subpoena demanding access to her county's voting equipment, election tapes, logs -- and ballots, which had been sealed and stored after the election.
"It was totally random," Pam Palmer, the clerk, told an attorney for the county, in a March 17, 2021, email obtained by CNN through a public-records request. In another email later the same day, she added, "He informed me that I do need to collect the ballots which are under seal at this point, and not to be opened for 22 months. He informed me they will be opening the ballot bags & resealing them."
Palmer is among at least eight county clerks who received DePerno's subpoenas, including in counties that didn't even use the Dominion Voting Systems machines at issue in DePerno's lawsuit.
DePerno's subpoenas were ultimately rejected by a judge -- but his attempt to get sealed voter ballots helps show how far he's gone to challenge the results of the 2020 presidential election.
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