May 18, 2024 - Epoch Times
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| Over in the state of Michigan, a woman who is both a county election official as well as a former township clerk was convicted of tampering with ballots during the 2020 election cycle. | |
| Specifically, during the recount process, this woman, using her official access, spoiled a batch of ballots in order to make them ineligible to be counted again. | |
| Although, to really explain what happened here, let me back up for a quick moment and set the stage for you properly. | |
| To start with, this right here is Ms. | |
| Kathy Funk. | |
| She's a Democrat, and back in the year 2020, she was both the Flint, Michigan Township Clerk, as well as an election official. | |
| And in August of 2020, she was up for re-election as the Clerk of Flint Township. | |
| Now, just on the surface, you might already see a bit of a conflict of interest here, because this woman, she was both on the ballot for re-election, but she was also an election official herself, in charge of conducting her very own election. | |
| Regardless, no one seemed to really mind, and so that's how things were set up. | |
| So the August election took place, and in an unofficial count, Ms. | |
| Kathy Funk won her re-election. | |
| However, her margin of victory was extremely slim. | |
| The tallies showed that the votes were 2,698 to 2,619, meaning that Ms. | |
| Kathy Funk won that election by just 79 votes. | |
| And so with such a slim margin, her opponent, Ms. | |
| Manya Triplett, was considering asking for an official recount. | |
| However, this is where things, you can say, got a little bit weird. | |
| Because before a recount could actually take place, Ms. | |
| Kathy Funk, who again herself at this time was an election official, she filed a police report with the local Flynn Township Police Department claiming that there was a break-in at the elections office and that an official seal on one of the canisters containing ballots had been broken. | |
| She claimed that someone had broken into the office and then subsequently broke an official seal on one of the batches of ballots. | |
| And the reason that this was so important is because it made an actual recount completely impossible. | |
| Because you see, under Section 168.871 of Michigan state law, this is the relevant law that governs recounts, it says the following, quote, The Board of Canvassers conducting a recount shall recount all ballots of a precinct using an electronic voting system unless one or more of the following circumstances exist. | |
| And then right underneath that, the very first circumstance that's listed under which a recount cannot take place says the following, quote, The seal on the transfer case or other ballot container is broken or bears a different number than that recorded on the poll book. | |
| The breaking or discrepancy is not explained to the satisfaction of the Board of Canvassers and security of the ballots has not been otherwise preserved. | |
| And wouldn't you know it, that is exactly what happened. | |
| Since the seal on those election ballots were broken, the challenger had to give up her intention of conducting a recount. | |
| And as such, Ms. | |
| Kathy Funk was certified as the official election winner. | |
| However, what's interesting to note is that Kathy Funk did not remain as the township clerk for very long. | |
| Instead, shortly after the election, she actually resigned her position as the Flint township clerk to instead become the Genesee County's election supervisor, the top election official within the entire county. | |
| However, her life in public service was cut short. | |
| That's because, as I alluded to earlier, according to the Michigan Attorney General, there was no random break-in at the elections office in the year 2020. | |
| Instead, after conducting a full investigation, the Michigan Attorney General found that it was Ms. | |
| Kathy Funk herself who broke the seals on the ballots so that a recount was impossible. | |
| Here was what the official statement from the attorney general's office in Michigan said when announcing the charges. | |
| Quote, the former Flint Township clerk faces felony charges related to the August 2020 primary. | |
| The Department of Attorney General alleges that Kathy Funk purposely broke a seal on a ballot container so that the votes inside under Michigan election law could not be counted in an anticipated recount. | |
| Funk was running for reelection. | |
| Cathy Funk then had two charges lobbied against her, ballot tampering as well as misconduct in office, both of which I should mention are felonies, each punishable by up to five years in prison. | |
| But don't worry. | |
| She got nowhere near 10 years in prison. | |
| Instead, what appears to have happened is that the first charge, the ballot tampering charge, was somehow dropped, and she pled no contest to the second charge, misconduct in office. | |
| And then, after a year of legal back and forth, Ms. | |
| Kathy Funk was sentenced to, quote, Two years probation, six months of house arrest and tether compliance, a $1,000 fine and $1,000 in court fees, and Ms. | |
| Funk must issue a written letter of apology to the voters of Flynn Township. | |
| And as a justification for why she was given such a light sentence, light compared to what it could have been, the judge in the case said the following to her at the actual sentencing, quote, I'm sure there's a segment of the population that thinks you should be locked up for calling into question the integrity of an election. | |
| And if we had unlimited jail space, perhaps that's true. | |
| But we don't. | |
| And so, there you have it. | |
| Tampering with the ballots, making a recount impossible, and falsifying a police report will lead to probation, a $1,000 fine, and you will have to write a letter of apology. | |
| Because after all, our jails are full. | |
| That is, if nothing else, amazing. | |
| If you'd like to read the details regarding this particular case, I'll throw the links to all my research notes. | |
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