https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/11/mi-naacp-president-pulls-race-card-black-gop-sos-candidate-suing-city-detroit-clerk-drop-boxes-signature-verification/
Outrageous! Michigan NAACP President Pulls “Race
Card” on Black GOP SOS Candidate For Suing City of Detroit Clerk Over
Drop-Boxes, Signature Verification and MORE!
100 Percent Fed Up reports -Race Card Played Against Black Republican Secretary of State Candidate Kristina Karamo!
A guest post by Becky Behrends, M.D. and Vice President of Research for Michigan Citizens for Election Integrity (MC4EI.com)
Here we go again! Now the race card is being played against
Republican Secretary of State candidate Kristina Karamo by the reliably
unreliable media and the leftist groups like the NAACP they serve over
the lawsuit she filed against Detroit City Clerk Janice Winfrey.
The president of the Detroit branch of the NAACP, the Rev. Wendell Anthony, said: “This
lawsuit is geared only towards the city of Detroit, a majority African
American city. It is designed to stop the effort to mobilize and drive
voter participation. It is targeted by its content and racist by its
intent. It is intended to disenfranchise black people. There is no
evidence of voter fraud. There is no pattern or practice of mail-in
ballot abuse. It is simply a lawsuit in search of a violation.”
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Karamo, with help from black female lawyer Alexandria Taylor, has
filed a last-minute lawsuit against the City of Detroit, alleging
improper and illegal practices with regard to the handling of absentee
ballots.
Attorney Alexandria Taylor, Plaintiff and GOP SOS candidate and former
poll challenger Kristina Karamo, and Plaintiff Patricia Farmer, a
lifelong Detroit resident.
Specifically, the lawsuit calls for halting the “use of absentee
ballots that are obtained without proper identification of the voter.”
The suit calls into question the use of Relia-Vote machines which are
used to verify signatures on ballots but which are not endorsed or
provided for by Michigan election law. There has been no public
transparency as to how these machines are used in signature
verification. Do they automatically check signatures? If so, what is the
sensitivity threshold for determining what a signature is? If not
properly specified, a stray mark could be construed as “a signature.” Or
are the signatures subject to “visual inspection” by election workers?
Is there a public accuracy test for these machines with bipartisan
assessment?
The whole issue of signature verification of absentee ballots
exploded in the 2020 general election when a judge ruled that Secretary
of State Jocelyn Benson violated the Administrative Procedures Act (APA)
with her signature verification guidance to clerks. She instructed them
to “presume” absentee ballot signatures were valid if they had
“redeeming qualities”. Judge Christopher Murray said .” Nowhere in the
state’s election law has the Legislature indicated that signatures are
to be presumed valid….Policy determinations like the one at issue- which
places a thumb on the scale in favor of a signature’s validity- should
be made pursuant to properly promulgated rules under the APA.” This
requires months of public notices, drafts, public comments, and
hearings. This was not done.
In addition, the lawsuit calls into question accepting absentee
ballots that were deposited via drop boxes that were not effectively
monitored.
What is “effective monitoring”? If surveillance videos are not being
observed in real-time, is that “effective”? It has been acknowledged
that the drop box videos in the Detroit 2020 election were not monitored
in real-time. Are surveillance videos considered “effective” if they
sit on the shelves of legislators for over a year with no viewing of
their contents? It took a third party (private citizen) to insist that
these videos needed to be examined. Secretary of State Benson and
Attorney General Dana Nessel have not investigated the findings of those
who reviewed these videos, so they are not in a position to say that
illegal activity or fraud was not committed. The burden of proof should
be on them.
MI Democrat SOS Jocelyn Benson and MI Democrat AG Dana Nessel
It seems entirely appropriate that these issues should be debated, investigated, and even litigated.
But, the kicker in this lawsuit was the charge that the lawsuit
represents “blatant racism” reminiscent of the Jim Crow era in which
black citizens were disenfranchised. And in the nation’s largest
majority-black city. Why pick on Detroit was their outcry? “Why not
Petoskey, Mi?” the judge asked.
That is like asking Willie Sutton in 1933 why he robbed banks. He replied, “Because that’s where the money is.”
One would think that a judge would not have to ask why Detroit was
opposed to Petoskey. It has nothing to do with racism. It has to do with
Detroit’s well-known history of corruption. Remember the mayoral
election race in 2005? Hip Hop mayor Kwame Kilpatrick had a “come from
behind victory” despite the fact that his too numerous to count corrupt
activities were well known. His challenger, black Detroiter Freeman
Hendrix, was even declared the winner in a landslide initially by WDIV
Channel 4. Then, late-night absentee ballots came rolling in! (Hmmm,
shades of 2020?) Surprise, surprise, right?! Hendrix later said, “there
has been enough evidence to raise legitimate questions about how the
election was conducted and how the ballots were counted.” Was African
American Hendrix a racist in saying this?
Karamo is black. Her attorney is black. One of the plaintiffs is a
black resident of Detroit. Their position is that if the voting process
is not secure or follows reliable and transparent procedures, it
actually disenfranchises the citizens of Detroit – which is, well,
racist!
Dan Hartmann, the attorney for the plaintiffs, said, in reference to
the attorney representing Detroit Clerk Winfrey, “I’m tired of being
called a racist by Mr. Fink!” (David Fink, representing the City of
Detroit).
Hartman blasted the dirty defense lawyer Mr.David Fink, who’s
representing the Detroit City Clerk. “To characterize me as trying to
disenfranchise the military voter is offensive!” he said.
“I’m tired of being called a racist by Mr. Fink,” Hartman told the
judge regarding the comments made by the far-left lawyer David Fink who
claimed the lawsuit was “blatant racism” and “reminiscent of Jim
Crow-era voter disenfranchisement.”
A frustrated Hartman, who was sick of the judge and the defense
lawyer treating him like a punching bag, told the judge, “I’m tired of
Mr. Fink saying I’m trying to disenfranchise the heroes in the military
when I’m trying to secure this election!”
So, which is it? It seems appropriate to judge the case based on its
merits with a proper investigation of the facts in the light of true
transparency. To even claim that folks are using the “race card” to
justify their positions is now considered deeply racist in itself.
Enough!
In the words of J.R. Dunn:
"For too long, too many blacks have
been collapsing into whimpers every time somebody mentions blackmail,
blackouts, or black markets. It’s a pathetic epilogue to the heroism and
grandeur of the civil rights movement. It’s past time this adolescent
posturing was put aside.”
