{"id":219588,"date":"2020-11-20T08:08:30","date_gmt":"2020-11-20T08:08:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=219588"},"modified":"2021-02-06T20:16:42","modified_gmt":"2021-02-06T20:16:42","slug":"wayne-county-canvassers-board-republicans-rescind-votes-certifying-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=219588","title":{"rendered":"Wayne County Canvassers Board Republicans Rescind Votes Certifying Election"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ivan Pentchoukov \u2013 The Epoch Times Nov 19, 2020<\/strong><\/h1>\n

In the second reversal in as many days, two Republicans on a county elections board in Michigan<\/strong><\/span><\/a> rescinded their votes that had certified their county\u2019s results in the 2020 election.<\/span><\/p>\n

Wayne County Board of Canvassers Chairperson Monica Palmer and board member William Hartmann signed sworn affidavits on Nov. 18 testifying that they voted to certify the election results the day before only because they were promised that a full audit of the election would take place to address their concerns. After learning that no audit would occur, they rescinded their votes.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cVice-Chairman Jonathan Kinloch gave me assurances that voting for the certification of the November election would result in a full, independent audit of Detroit\u2019s unbalanced precincts,\u201d Palmer wrote, according to an affidavit<\/a><\/strong><\/span> obtained by Just The News. \u201cI relied on that assurance and voted to certify the election based on that assurance.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cLater that evening, I was sent statements that Secretary Jocelyn Benson made saying that she did not view our audit resolution to be binding,\u201d Palmer continued. \u201cAs a result of these facts, I rescind my prior vote to certify Wayne County elections.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Prior to the vote on Tuesday<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, Hartmann determined that 71 percent of Wayne County\u2019s Absent Voter County Boards were not balanced without any explanation. After initially voting against certifying the results and deadlocking on the board\u2019s certification, he and Palmer changed their votes after being promised an audit.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI was enticed to agree to certify based on a promise that the full and independent audit would take place,\u201d Hartmann wrote<\/strong><\/span><\/a>\u00a0in an affidavit obtained by Just The News. \u201cUntil these questions are addressed, I remain opposed to certification of Wayne County results.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

In his affidavit, Hartmann listed a number of other concerns about the election, including an unresolved question about private money being used to pay poll workers.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI am also concerned about the use of private monies directing local officials regarding the management of the elections, how those funds were used, and whether such funds were used to pay election workers. I have not received answers to these questions, and I believe the people of Michigan deserve these answers,\u201d he wrote.<\/span><\/p>\n

Both Hartmann and Palmer say they were berated and accused of racism after they voted against certifying the results. Palmer said that the abuse went so far as to have\u00a0\u201cthreatened me and members of my family.\u201d President Donald Trump tweeted<\/a> about the matter on Nov. 18.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThen they were threatened, screamed at, and viciously harassed, and were FORCED to change their vote, but then REFUSED, as American patriots, to sign the documents. 71% MESS. Don\u2019t Harass!\u201d the president wrote.<\/span><\/p>\n

Trump had weighed in on the situation in Wayne County just after the initial vote, calling the two GOP canvassers courageous.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWow! Michigan just refused to certify the election results! Having courage is a beautiful thing. The USA stands proud!\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n

Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, a Democrat, had called the discrepancies in Wayne County \u201cbookkeeping errors<\/strong><\/span>\u201d<\/a> on Nov. 18 and hailed the\u00a0Republican\u2019s initial decision to certify<\/a><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0the results after they were holding back as the right thing to do.<\/span><\/p>\n

Zachary Stieber contributed to this report.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The cracks in the fa\u00e7ade of Biden\u2019s supposed \u201cvictory\u201d are beginning to show as election officials refuse to certify the results. Both were then harassed, threatened and accused of \u201cracism\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19,58,113],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Behind_The_News","category-Current_Affairs","category-nov-2020-usa-election-fraud"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=219588"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":219589,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219588\/revisions\/219589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=219588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=219588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=219588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}