Is a Michigan clerk facing trial for altering hundreds of ballots in the 2018 election?
Friday, November 6, 2020
By Esther Tsvayg
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In September 2019, a Southfield, Michigan, city clerk, Sherikia Hawkins, was charged with six felony counts for allegedly altering 193 absentee voter records in the November 2018 midterm election. Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson reassured voters that Hawkins's actions did not change the outcome of any race or disenfranchise any voters.
In June 2020, Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel announced that Hawkins would be tried in the Oakland County Circuit Court for falsifying election records, forgery of a public record, misconduct in office and using a computer to commit a crime.
This case is not related to the November 2020 general election.
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