Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel requested a special prosecutor for Matt DePerno and others over an alleged 'conspiracy' to access to voting machines
In this March 5, 2020, file photo, Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel speaks during a news conference in Lansing, Mich. | In this April 2, 2022, file photo, Republican candidate for Michigan Attorney General Matt DePerno speaks in Washington Township, Mich.an outside prosecutor to consider charges against a group of prominent individuals for having allegedly engaged in a "conspiracy" to unlawfully gain access to voting machines used in the 2020 presidential election.
The nine people now under scrutiny include likely Republican attorney general candidate DePerno; Republican state Rep. Daire Rendon of Lake City; and Barry County Sheriff Dar Leaf, who had filed -- in a matter unrelated to the attorney general's current request -- multiple lawsuits against state agencies he claimed were investigating his allegations of voter fraud in the 2020 election.
DePerno's campaign added that "if Dana Nessel decides to move forward with these claims, she will ultimately find herself on the defendant's side of a malicious prosecution case." Stevenson eventually handed over a tabulator and several USB drives, the petition states. When asked by another person allegedly affiliated with Rendon to hand over a computer containing the county's election reporting management software, the clerk initially refused the request but later said that she would allow the individual to "copy the software from the stand-alone county computer.