Established Fact On November 18, 2020, Monica Palmer received death threats via text message, including photographs of naked, mutilated bodies and images of her daughter. The sender, identified as 23-year-old college student Katelyn Jones, was subsequently arrested and charged. This conduct constitutes criminal threats under MCL § 750.543m and potentially interstate threat transmission under 18
Established Fact Wayne County Board of Canvassers Chair Monica Palmer and member William Hartmann voted on November 17, 2020 to withhold certification, citing that 71% of Detroit’s Absentee Voter Counting Board precincts were mathematically out of balance. During the ensuing public comment period, elected officials publicly identified Palmer’s home municipality, referenced her minor daughter by
Established Fact Michigan Bureau of Elections Director Jonathan Brater issued a memorandum on August 4, 2021, threatening clerks with decertification of election equipment if they permitted any independent technical experts – including those retained by duly elected boards of canvassers – to examine voting systems. Simultaneously, the same vendor (ElectionSource) implicated in directing battery-removal from
Established Fact Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel issued cease-and-desist threats to media outlets hosting the “Detroit Leaks” poll-worker training video, threatening potential criminal prosecution to force removal of content showing controversial instructions given to Detroit election workers regarding how to use COVID six foot rule to obstruct Republican poll challengers. The “six foot rule” was
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Disputed Fact Multiple attorneys who filed election integrity challenges in Michigan faced concurrent financial and professional consequences initiated or recommended by federal and state officials. In August 2021, U.S. District Judge Linda V. Parker sanctioned Sidney Powell, Lin Wood, Stefanie Lambert, and six other attorneys for the King v. Whitmer challenge, ordering monetary payment of
Established Fact [Established Fact – As to procedural dismissal rates, Clare Locke letters, anti-analysis clause, and Bailey dismissal basis] The Michigan source record, corroborated by the national elections litigation analysis in the project files, establishes that the characterization of all Michigan post-2020 election cases as having been dismissed “for lack of evidence” is factually inaccurate.
Established Fact Denied plaintiffs in civil lawsuits the opportunity to obtain a fair and unbiased trial. Judge Kenny presided over 2 election cases – Costantino v City of Detroit and Stoddard et al. v City Election Commission of the City of Detroit. He did not allow plaintiffs to pursue discovery in either case. By directing
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Disputed Fact While plaintiffs faced extreme judicial hostility for technical pleading errors and affidavits deemed hearsay without the benefit of any discovery to prove them, the court accommodated defendants’ aggressive litigation tactics-allowing the City of Detroit to file a 38-page brief explicitly seeking sanctions and disbarment against plaintiffs’ attorneys, prioritizing punitive procedural action over evidentiary
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Established Fact Wayne County Circuit Court Judge Timothy Kenny denied a preliminary injunction by making definitive credibility findings without an evidentiary hearing. He summarily dismissed sworn affidavits from multiple Republican poll challengers as “incorrect and not credible” while heavily crediting a single defense affidavit from Christopher Thomas, entirely bypassing the adversarial process of cross-examination. No
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Disputed Fact Attorney Matt DePerno and attorney Stefanie Lambert Junttila — both active in 2020 election-challenge litigation and forensic investigations of electronic voting systems — were charged with felonies arising from their involvement in unauthorized access to and testing of voting tabulators. On August 1–2, 2023, Michigan special prosecutor D.J. Hilson — appointed by Attorney
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