AG Dana Nessel joins call for audit of Democratic convention results

Lansing — Three Michigan Democrats, including Attorney General Dana Nessel, are calling for an audit of their party's April 19 convention results, citing problems with the way votes were submitted and counted at the gathering of thousands of party members.

Over the weekend, state Sen. Sylvia Santana appealed her narrow loss in a race for a seat on the Michigan State University Board of Trustees and said the state Democratic Party's leadership didn't enforce a rule requiring people to be in person at the meeting to vote.

The 53-page filing from Santana's campaign contended there were "material errors" in the convention's vote-counting process and requested an audit of all the results by an outside firm. According to unofficial numbers, previously obtained by The Detroit News, Santana finished in third place by about 15 votes for the second of two nominations for the MSU board.

The submission from Santana, a Detroit Democrat, put a brighter light on concerns from some in the party about how the electronic voting system, involving attendees' personal cellphones, functioned at the convention. Santana's campaign said it reviewed location data for devices used in voting and found more than 200 votes were cast remotely, from outside Detroit's Huntington Place convention center.



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