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The state Senate Oversight Committee recommended an investigation as part of its recent 55-page report examining and refuting allegations of widespread voter fraud in Michigan during the 2020 election.
“After reviewing the report in full, the department has accepted Sen. [Ed] McBroom and the committee’s request to investigate,” Lynsey Mukomel, Nessel's press secretary, told the Washington Examiner in a statement on Thursday.
Michigan State Police will assist in the investigation, Mukomel added.
The committee’s report found election results were accurate after numerous allegations of fraud by former President Donald Trump and his supporters after President Joe Biden won the state of Michigan and its 16 Electoral College votes by roughly 150,000 ballots.
“After innumerable hours over many months, watching, listening, and reading both in-person testimony and various other accounts, I am confident in asserting that the results of the November 2020 General Election in Michigan were accurately represented by the certified and audited results,” said McBroom, the Republican chairman of the oversight committee, in a statement when the report was released last month.
The committee found only two instances of dead people voting but determined one was a clerical issue and the other was a “timing issue.”
“None of these constituted fraudulent election activities or manipulations,” the report said.
Those alleging that hundreds of thousands of absentee ballots were mailed to voters without being requested fallaciously equated ballot applications with the ballots themselves, the committee also found.
The committee’s report took a special focus on Antrim County, where some critics, including attorney Matthew DePerno in a lawsuit, have argued the hacking of voting machines was responsible for Trump’s loss in the county. The report found DePerno’s arguments to be “demonstrably false and based on misleading information and illogical conclusions.”
As one of its recommendations, the committee suggested the attorney general consider investigating “those who have been utilizing misleading and false information about Antrim County to raise money or publicity for their own ends.”
“The Committee finds those promoting Antrim County as the prime evidence of a nationwide conspiracy to steal the election place all other statements and actions they make in a position of zero credibility,” the report said.
Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, a Democrat, said her office looked forward to working with Nessel on the investigation into what she called “the real fraud that took place in 2020: efforts to deceive Michigan citizens about their vote with misleading, false statements about the accuracy & integrity of our elections.”
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