by Logan Washburn at the Federalist
The Hamtramck clerk alleged pervasive ballot trafficking in the city’s elections. Meanwhile, Michigan’s AG met with a fraud suspect.
Voter fraud has been taking place in the Detroit-area suburb of Hamtramck “for years,” potentially affecting “hundreds of ballots,” the city clerk told The Federalist. She wrote Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel weeks ago imploring action, but heard “nothing” in response.
“That’s the only thing I can do, since there’s nobody else that helps me put a stop to them breaking the law,” Hamtramck City Clerk Rana Faraj told The Federalist. “It’s been ongoing for years, and nobody does anything about it.”
Meanwhile, Nessel was pictured meeting with Hamtramck Councilman Mohammed Hassan — who is accused of election fraud — at an event in Detroit on March 29, according to Facebook. The two discussed “local security issues,” according to an account of the event posted online.
The Detroit suburb of Hamtramck, once a Polish enclave, is now the only Muslim-majority city in America. The area elected an “all-Muslim government” in 2021. The city’s population is just more than 27,000, so Faraj said only a few thousand voters turn out for city elections. The clerk said she is “aware” of her surroundings, so she knows “exactly what’s going on in the community.”
“Harvesting ballots and dumping dozens, I want to say hundreds, of ballots at once into drop boxes — all in the same direction, all ‘glue-sticked’ the same way — it was obvious that it was all done by an individual or a group of people,” Faraj said. “When you’re collecting ballots and harvesting ballots, any amount of ballots is going to affect the race because it’s a smaller number of people voting. It affects it completely.”
Michigan law only allows “a member of the immediate family,” or a clerk upon request, to “mail or deliver a ballot” on behalf of the voter. So outside of these parameters, ballot harvesting is illegal.
Faraj said she is…
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