MUSKEGON, Mich. (Legal Newsline) - An investigation by Attorney General Dana Nessel’s office into voter fraud surrounding the 2020 general elections only recently became public, with a Gateway Pundit report that cites a Michigan State Police record of the investigation.
Police records show that on Oct. 21, 2020, Tom Fabus, chief of investigations for the AG’s office, contacted the State Police for help with a joint investigation of alleged voter fraud being conducted by the Muskegon Police Department and the AG’s office.
“Two members of AG Dana Nessel’s Criminal Investigation Division were assigned to the operation, yet curiously, she failed to mention the investigation to the public,” the Gateway Pundit story said.
The AG’s office did not respond to a request by Legal Newsline as to why it never issued a statement announcing the investigation.
State police records were obtained by Phil O’Halloran, chair of the Michigan GOP’s election committee, and Lori Skibo, director of the GOP’s poll challenger program.
The records show that Muskegon Clerk Ann Meisch notified police about a woman dropping off between 8,000 and 10,000 completed voter registration applications on Oct. 8, 2020 – many of them with the same handwriting.
The same woman brought in an additional 2,500 forms on Oct. 20.
Meisch believed the forms “were highly suspicious and possibly fraudulent,” according to the police report.
The woman told the state police investigator working the case that she was being paid $1,150 a week by leftist political consultant GBI Strategies “to find un-registered voters and provide them with a form so they can get registered to vote or obtain their absentee ballot.”
“The only problem is, the handwriting on the voter registrations was the same on several of the registrations and many of the addresses were non-existent or fake,” the Gateway Pundit story said.
On Monday, Bridge Michigan reported that state officials confirmed that “authorities found evidence that scores of 2020 voter registration applications submitted in Muskegon were ‘clearly fraudulent’ but did not issue charges because the matter was referred to the FBI as part of a national probe.”
The fraud may likely have extended far beyond Muskegon.
Michigan State Senator Ruth Johnson (R-Holly), a former Secretary of State, told the Gateway Pundit that she estimates “over 800,000 ballot applications were sent to non-qualified voters in Michigan, including many individuals who moved or died, and even some individuals who were underage or non-citizens. Many were sent to people who had moved out of state.”
Attorney General Dana Nessel and Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, both Democrats, have repeatedly claimed that no widespread voter fraud took place in Michigan.
Trump lost Michigan to Biden by a margin of 2.8%, or 154,188 votes.