Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel has announced felony charges against four St. Clair Shores residents and three assistant clerks accused of orchestrating a double-voting scheme in the 2024 primary election.
On Oct. 4, Nessel’s office announced that it had formally charged the four residents of voting twice in the August primary election, while accusing the three assistant clerks of falsifying voter records to cover up the double voting by marking absentee ballots as rejected instead of received.
The four residents—Frank Prezzato, Stacy Kramer, Douglas Kempkins Jr., and Geneva O’Day—allegedly cast both absentee and in-person votes. Each faces one count of voting as an absentee and in person, a felony punishable by up to five years in prison, along with one count of offering to vote more than once, which carries a four-year penalty.
Meanwhile, assistant clerks Patricia Guciardo, Emily McClintock, and Molly Brasure are charged with multiple felonies for their roles in allegedly enabling the double voting. Both Guciardo and McClintock face one count of falsifying election returns or records, one count of voting as an absentee and in person, and one count of offering to vote more than once. Brasure faces two counts of each charge.
In a statement accompanying the charges, Nessel said that while double voting is rare in Michigan, the severity of this case is alarming due to the failure of the safeguards designed to prevent it.
“There are procedures in place to ensure this does not happen and that is why it so rarely does. It took a confluence of events and decisions to allow these four people to double vote,” Nessel said in a statement. “Nevertheless, the fact that four incidents occurred in a municipality of this size raised significant concerns and is simply unheard of.”
The charges stem from incidents in St. Clair Shores, where the four residents allegedly appeared at their polling location to cast in-person ballots after submitting absentee ballots. Poll workers, who had already marked the absentee ballots as received in the state’s Electronic Poll Book, were reportedly instructed by the assistant clerks to override the warnings and issue in-person ballots. Both the absentee and in-person votes were ultimately counted.
The assistant clerks are further accused of altering the State Qualified Voter File to falsely mark the absentee ballots as rejected, enabling the double votes to be included in the final tally.
The double-voting incidents were discovered by a St. Clair Shores clerk after the primary election and reported to the authorities. The Macomb County Prosecutor’s office, local police, and the Michigan Bureau of Elections launched an investigation, eventually leading to the felony charges against the seven individuals.
“My office has been committed to pursuing, investigating and, when necessary, charging, cases of election fraud, and have done so when the evidence provides for criminal charges,” Nessel said. “Election integrity matters, and we must take these violations seriously in order to ensure we can trust the results on the other end.”
Arraignment dates for the defendants have not yet been scheduled. Attorneys for the accused were not immediately available for comment on the charges.
Concerns over election integrity are mounting among U.S. voters. According to a recent Gallup poll, the percentage of Americans saying they are “not at all confident” in the vote has steadily climbed from 6 percent in 2004 to 19 percent in 2024.
While 57 percent of voters say they are somewhat or very confident that the votes for this year’s presidential election will be accurately counted, a deep partisan divide persists. A record-high 56-percentage-point gap exists between Democrats and Republicans, with 84 percent of Democrats expressing confidence in the voting process, compared to just 28 percent of Republicans.
“A record-high 56-percentage-point gap exists between Democrats and Republicans, with 84 percent of Democrats expressing confidence in the voting process, compared to just 28 percent of Republicans.”
This is because the the Democrat Party’s useful idiots obediently obey and believe the Democrat Party’s political propaganda/Lies.
i.e.
Joe Biden is as sharp as a tack.
The southern border is secure.
Bidenomics is good for our country.
Our inflation reduction act will lower inflation.
The victims of hurricane Helene are getting everything they need. etc. etc.
What happened is that FEMA, because it’s a division of DHS, it’s very clear that they should be focused on helping Americans recover from disasters and not straining resources that go to other programs that are catering to illegals.” The Democrats are using FEMA funds to support illegal immigrants! 🙁 🙁 🙁
Don’t forget “Election fraud doesn’t happen!”
BUT I WONDER, why did they leave out WHICH POLITICAL party these seven voted for??
Here, it’s in the fox news story…
2 clerks were registered as Dems.
But the local DA, who declined to prosecute these fraudsters, is a hardcore MAGA Republican.
Looks like someone has been compromised. Why would a Republican DA decline to fully investigate and prosecute Dem election clerks who falsified election records to allow people to double vote??
Something smells awful fishy ..
https://www.fox2detroit.com/news/michigan-felony-election-violations-announcement-expected-friday
“Joe Biden is as sharp as a tack.”
This statement is half true, as they never identify which end of the tack they are referencing.
When criminals understad there will be guaranteed consequnces for their crimes and lawbreaking actions, the criminals soon begin to stop the criminal actions. When they understand there is a major American political party ready to ignore the law breaking or when caught they will be released to act criminally again,,,,they iwll continue to act in criminal law breaking actions again, and again, and again. If you can rape and murder and get let losse by your freigndly neighborhood District Attorney, the criminal sky is the limit and illegally voting becomes a drop in the bucket. and a wad of money in their bribed back pockets.
WHICH is why so damn many libtard ag’s, da’s and judges, REFUSE TO PUNISH folk..
I agree. Which is why it is so darn awful that the local prosecutor wouldn’t charge any of these fraudsters. The state AG had to step in. And now the mayor wants the city (that is, taxpayers) to pay for the corrupt clerks’ legal defense. Crazy!!
The prosecutor’s name is Lucinda, I think. Google him… you’ll find the whole ugly story. Or Google “st. Claire michigan mayor outraged over charges voter fraud”
You will not like what you find. But you can’t ignore it.
I agree. Which is why it is so darn awful that the local prosecutor wouldn’t charge any of these fraudsters. The state AG had to step in. And now the mayor wants the city (that is, taxpayers) to pay for the corrupt clerks’ legal defense. Crazy!!
Google “st. Claire michigan mayor outraged over charges voter fraud”
I could see how one corrupt assistant clerk could conspire with a handful of citizens to facilitate election fraud.
Three assistant clerks in the same jurisdiction represents a complete hijacking of the election, and brings into question the hiring process that recruited so many assistant clerks who were willing merely to suggest committing election fraud to each other, let alone actually do it. Unless this handful of double-voters was a trial run to see what level of fraud could go undetected, I can’t imagine that is the extent of it. Three compromised clerks can cover for each other, sign off on each other’s work, etc. to make much larger frauds much harder to discover.
AND its shocking the SILENCE from the lame stream media on this.
I agree. Which is why it is so darn awful that the local prosecutor wouldn’t charge any of these fraudsters. The state AG had to step in. And now the mayor wants the city (that is, taxpayers) to pay for the corrupt clerks’ legal defense. Crazy!!
Google “st. Claire michigan mayor outraged over charges voter fraud”