{"id":112511,"date":"2026-04-20T01:04:49","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T04:04:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ubirataonline.com.br\/michigan-attorney-general-rejects-trump-administration-ballot-request-amid-broader-push-to-challenge-elections\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T01:04:51","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T04:04:51","slug":"michigan-attorney-general-rejects-trump-administration-ballot-request-amid-broader-push-to-challenge-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubirataonline.com.br\/en\/michigan-attorney-general-rejects-trump-administration-ballot-request-amid-broader-push-to-challenge-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"Michigan attorney general rejects Trump administration ballot request amid broader push to challenge elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-editable=\"content\" itemprop=\"articleBody\" data-reorderable=\"content\">\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmo695cye00402cqb7806gbz8@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Michigan\u2019s attorney general is rejecting an effort by the US Justice Department to obtain ballots and other voting materials from the Detroit area, a target of the Trump administration\u2019s efforts to probe elections in states that the president falsely claims he won in 2020.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmo695i6y0001356q6b7l8ab6@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Harmeet Dhillon, the DOJ\u2019s assistant attorney general for civil rights, sent a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.michigan.gov\/ag\/-\/media\/Project\/Websites\/AG\/releases\/2026\/April\/DOJ-Letter-to-Wayne-County.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">letter<\/a> to the clerk who oversees elections in Wayne County, Michigan\u2019s most populous, on Tuesday, requesting she turn over all ballots, ballot receipts and ballot envelopes from the 2024 election within two weeks.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmo695i6z0002356qxt74uydg@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel <a href=\"https:\/\/www.michigan.gov\/ag\/-\/media\/Project\/Websites\/AG\/releases\/2026\/April\/Wayne-County-Letter-Final.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">responded<\/a> on Friday, calling President Donald Trump and his allies\u2019 claims of widespread voter fraud \u201cbaseless\u201d and warning that state leaders stand \u201cready to defend against these claims and any attempt to interfere in Michigan\u2019s elections.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmo695i6z0003356qg7foefzy@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Federal prosecutors want to ensure that ballots from the last presidential election are legally valid because of Wayne County\u2019s \u201chistory,\u201d Dhillon explains.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmo695i6z0004356qvd0a1dn9@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            However, several of her allegations of voter fraud in the 2020 election stem from a Michigan case that courts repeatedly rejected, citing a lack of credibility in the plaintiffs\u2019 claims about operations at Detroit\u2019s downtown ballot-counting center \u2014 an epicenter of conspiracy theories.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmo695i6z0005356q9cyzwz0r@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Nessel emphasized that federal, state and local officials have repeatedly found no evidence of widespread voter fraud in Michigan, calling the few cases that her office prosecuted related to the 2020 election \u201cinfinitesimal\u201d compared to the total number of voters in Wayne County.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmo695i6z0006356qn33cl93d@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            In her letter to Dhillon, Nessel repudiated the basis of DOJ\u2019s efforts, arguing that \u201cspeculative evidence of election fraud\u201d does not meet the standard required to compel states to turnover ballots and that it is too broad in scope.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmo6bc7zl000q356qjia9zots@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            CNN has reached out to the Justice Department about Nessel\u2019s letter.\n    <\/p>\n<div data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/image\/instances\/cmo6b1k1t00013b6qgmm46qna@published\" class=\"image_large-elevate vossi-image_large-elevate  image_large__hide-placeholder\" data-image-variation=\"image_large\" data-name=\"GettyImages-2237754043A.JPG\" data-component-name=\"image\" data-observe-resizes=\"\" data-breakpoints=\"{\" image_large--eq-extra-small=\"\" data-original-ratio=\"0.666\" data-original-height=\"1332\" data-original-width=\"2000\" 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Michigan\u2019s elections are largely administered by local clerks who report voting data to the county. Nessel contends that the 43 clerks throughout Wayne County who retain ballots from 2024 should not have to respond to a request related to allegations outside of their jurisdiction.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmo695i6z0008356qc6usfv41@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cFree and fair elections are the cornerstone of our democracy,\u201d Nessel wrote, vowing to do everything in her power to protect the \u201cfundamental right to vote\u201d in Michigan.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmo695i6z0009356qgwslv0q3@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Michigan is just the latest state that the Trump administration has focused in on in its efforts to probe old ballots from battleground states, sparking concerns about how far they will go in policing future elections.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmo695i6z000a356q6c6m7km8@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            The FBI seized 2020 ballots from a Fulton County, Georgia elections center in January, years after Trump pressured then-Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to \u201cfind\u201d the votes to overturn his loss to Joe Biden in that state.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmo695i6z000b356qehvw55t5@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            In the ensuing legal battle, a lawyer for Fulton County <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/03\/27\/politics\/trump-doj-probe-2020-election-court-hearing\">warned <\/a>a federal judge last month that if he did not scrutinize the criminal search warrant used to obtain 2020 Atlanta-area election records, it could embolden the Trump administration to seize ballots in the midst of an election in the future.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmo695i6z000c356q1v4dxv8z@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            The president has already suggested that the federal government could get \u201cinvolved\u201d in counting votes if he doesn\u2019t believe states are doing their constitutional duty of administering elections adequately.\n    <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/04\/19\/politics\/michigan-attorney-general-trump-administration-ballots\">Source link <\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michigan\u2019s attorney general is rejecting an effort by the US Justice Department to obtain ballots and other voting materials from the Detroit area, a target of the Trump administration\u2019s efforts to probe elections in states that the president falsely claims he won in 2020. 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