Workers process absentee ballots in 2020 at the TCF Center (File photo
GOP gubernatorial candidate Perry Johnson showed up at a fundraiser at Mar-a-Lago this week, and appears to now share former President Trump's No. 1 peeve about Michigan.
Workers process absentee ballots in 2020 at the TCF Center. (File photo)
Johnson is releasing a new ad that promises to "hold Detroit accountable" for minor election errors, The Detroit News reports:
The pledge is part of the businessman's new "Quality Elections Means Secure Elections" plan, which his campaign began rolling out Wednesday. It came a day after he traveled to Florida to participate in an event hosted by former President Donald Trump.
..."Reward jurisdictions that balance their precinct poll books with the number of ballots cast with extra statutory revenue sharing and penalize those who do not," a summary of his plan said.
Johnson, who made a fortune as an ISO 9000 expert on manufacturing quality standards, now wants to bring the carrot/stick approach to Michigan elections.
As election experts have pointed out time and again, the scary-sounding out of balance precincts and absentee counting boards in Detroit and other communities do not indicate fraud, but rather clerical errors or other human-based screwups. The total number of unaccounted-for votes in Detroit in November 2020 was fewer than 500, not enough to affect the outcome of a single race. Later audits of poll books brought that number down to fewer than 200.
Trump lost Michigan in 2020 to President Joe Biden, who beat him by 154,000 votes statewide.
Watch the ad below:
