GENESEE COUNTY, MI -- The county has certified its Nov. 3 election results and forwarded them to the state, and Clerk-Register John Gleason says local clerks, election workers and the Board of Canvassers deserve thanks for their work in handling record absentee ballots and in-person voting during the coronavirus pandemic.
Gleason, speaking with Flint Township Clerk Kathy Funk on Thursday, Nov. 19, said county canvassers spent days working through balancing poll books after more than 221,000 votes, more than one-half of them absentee ballots, were cast.
Biden got 119,390 votes to Trump’s 98,714 in Genesee County.
While President Donald Trump won nearly 60 percent of votes cast in person, President-elect Joe Biden won by an even larger margin among absentee votes in the county, collecting more than 66 percent of those votes. Absentee ballots outnumbered those cast in person by a margin of 122,515 to 98,845.
“There’s been a great deal of duress put on our staff and people that do our type of work across the state of Michigan about fraudulent activity,” Gleason said. “That’s a hoax and a witch hunt on well-meaning and honest individuals.”
Gleason’s comments come in the same week that two Republicans serving on the Wayne County Board of Canvassers announced they want to rescind their votes to certify results of the general election in the Detroit area and after Michigan’s top legislative leaders were invited and are expected to meet with President Donald Trump on Friday, Nov. 20.
The expected visit comes as the Trump campaign and the Republican party continue legal efforts to discredit and delay certification of election results that named Biden the winner in Michigan by more than 140,000 votes. None of the lawsuits challenging Michigan’s election process have won a court battle yet.
Gleason said Trump is “crying at the tip of his longs that this was a fraudulent election” without evidence, and said his remarks are “hurtful to the Democratic process.”
“There was no skulduggery. There was no subterfuge,” the clerk-register said. Election officials “did their job.”
“We are grateful in Genesee County that the Board of Canvassers unanimously supported and certified this election,” he said.
The county Board of Canvassers is comprised of two Democrats and two Republicans, appointed by the county Board of Commissioners to certify election returns for national, state, local and school offices.
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