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Michigan certified Monday afternoon that Joe Biden won the November 3 presidential election in that state. With the victory, the Democrat won 16 delegates to the Electoral College.
The act is another defeat for President Donald Trump, who was trying to reverse the outcome: The Republican National Committee and the Michigan Republican Party even wrote to the Michigan State Electoral Council on Saturday calling for a 14-day postponement of certification for allow a ballot audit in the largest county in the state.
The request was related to Wayne County, which includes the black-majority city of Detroit.
The certification was issued on Monday by three votes in favor and one abstention, by a committee made up of two Democratic and two Republican officials.
The Michigan Secretary of State’s office recommended on Friday that the state council certify the results, which showed Biden winning Michigan by 154,187 votes. According to Reuters, the cabinet said there were minor tabulation errors, but they were due to “human errors similar to those of previous elections” and had not affected the results.
Biden supporter shows a sign in Michigan, claims he certified victory on Monday (23) – Photo: Reuters / Rebecca Cook
On Thursday, the Trump campaign announced that it had withdrawn the process in which it tried to stop the counting of votes in the state of Michigan.
The Michigan lawsuit was trying to avoid certification of the result in the Detroit region, the state’s largest city, and the president’s campaign said it dropped the lawsuit to achieve its goal, which is not true.
Trump’s campaign attorney, Mark “Thor” Hearne II, said the process was no longer necessary because “the Wayne County tax council met and refused to certify the results of the presidential election.”
But the result of that county was certified on Tuesday (17). Republican inspectors came to block the certification of the results, but came back later.
That same day, Trump invited Republican MPs from Michigan to a meeting at the White House on Friday.
Michigan Republican Party leaders arrive at the White House to meet with Donald Trump on Friday (Photo: Leah Millis / Reuters)
The leaders of the Michigan State Senate and House of Representatives, both Republicans, issued a statement after that meeting in which they denied knowing of any wrongdoing and promised to follow the rules.
“We were not alerted to any information that could change the outcome of the Michigan elections. And, as leaders of the Legislature, we will follow the law and normal processes regarding Michigan votes in the Electoral College,” they said.
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