Trump allies charged with felonies involving voting machines
A former candidate for attorney general in Michigan pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to charges associated with his alleged efforts to obtain and damage voting machines in the wake of the 2020 presidential election, according to a court official.
Matthew DePerno, who ran an unsuccessful bid as the Republican candidate in 2020, was charged on four counts, including undue possession of a voting machine, conspiracy to commit unauthorized access to a computer system and willfully damaging a voting machine, according to Richard Lynch, an administrator at the Oakland County court in Michigan.
DePerno was arraigned Tuesday along with Daire Rendon, a former GOP state representative, who was charged with conspiracy to commit undue possession of a voting machine and false pretenses.
"These allegations are incredibly serious and unprecedented," Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel said in a statement Tuesday. "The 2024 presidential election will soon be upon us. The lies espoused by attorneys involved in this matter, and those who worked in concert with them across the nation, wreaked havoc and sowed distrust within our democratic institutions and processes."
Both entered not-guilty pleas, Lynch said.
"We know the 2020 Presidential Election in Michigan was the most heavily scrutinized election in American history, and every audit and review found the election to be secure, fair, and accurate to the will of the voters," Nessel said. "The alleged actions by these defendants, and others, who worked to erode trust in our election system caused undeniable harm to our democracy.
Nessel in 2022 requested a special counsel to investigate DePerno, Rendon and others, who allegedly “orchestrated a coordinated plan to gain access to voting tabulators” in three Michigan Counties under the pretense of an “investigation in election fraud,” DePerno said at the time.
The alleged scheme included taking the tabulators to hotel rooms where they were “broken into” and “tested” with fake ballots, Nessel said. The investigators alleged DePerno was present during one such instance of tabulator testing.
At the time, former President Donald Trump publicly praised DePerno as a “tough” candidate who would ensure “fair elections.”
"He's so tough, people are afraid to even be in the same room with him," Trump said in an Aug. 6, 2022, CPAC speech. "He's going to make sure that you're gonna have law and order and fair elections and so many other things. He is respected by everybody in that state."
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There may be some hard times coming up for these two.
Would this be lie 55,932?
I think that you're on the low side, he is probably well over 1,000,000 by now.
I lost count at 25,355
Just OMG. The stuff people think they can get away with
But they were just following Thunder Mouth's orders...
Trump sure knows how to pick em.
Well he picked a couple of losers, again.
Giuliani used to be the toast of NYC and now a defendant. How did those NY'rs misjudge him so in the 90's and 00's?
He gained and refined that ability during The Apprentice.
even F 1 has not sense,
one can still make change
HI Iggie good to see you again.
thanx, been having much going on as of late
iggy! the listing of the uss smartass has been righted with your return.
i CAP size off 10
but my depths are charged
as i submarine what aircraft drop
like a poop scooper, just mot asz super
but Duper ed, they B, and it stings, asz it stinkz
for even eye must blink
and rub my iiiiiz, cause tuff to believe sew many stitched and tied, while torn and lied
LOL
I think... this and a few other similar cases really shows the projection, and/or narcissism, some of us have talked about before. These people knew... just knew... the only way they could have lost was fraud. They had no proof other than they lost. So they figured they had to break the law to find the evidence. Of course these dipshit twatwaffles didn't find any. And for some people, you just can't reason with, find that evidence of how sophisticated the deep state liberal machine really is.
The are very deluded, EG.
no thing new
to not know
for a Trump excuser
I read this morning that the Michigan GOP is broke and then there is the fight between two members.
Time for popcorn.
too many hands in the cookie jar. tough shit fascists.