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‘Beatdown’ for GOP Candidate: How Michigan Combats Election ‘Misinformation’

From The Daily Signal, August 11, 2024

Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, left, and Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel greet the crowd at a Detroit rally on Oct. 29, 2022. (Jeff Kowalsky/AFP/Getty Images)


Excerpt:


When a Republican primary candidate for a local township post in Michigan made posts on social media, she didn’t anticipate what she characterized as a “Shut up, lady” letter from the state attorney general’s office threatening to prosecute her. 


The GOP candidate, Kerry Lynn Elieff, described new polling locations in a June 12 post on the Facebook page for her campaign for Ross Township supervisor, as well as on other social media accounts.


“Late last week, I was shocked,” she said, describing how she got a cease-and-desist letter from the Michigan Attorney General’s Office.


Read the complete article Here.


 

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