Or it could be 34 ballots. You have no evidence of either.
An anonymous election integrity non-profit recently commissioned respected Lansing, Michigan
Forensic Analysis firm, Speckin Forensics, LLC to “examine and recount the ballots, envelopes,
totals tapes, record books and other documents” from the 2020 election in Detroit. This
included all 134 Absent Voter Counting Boards (AVCB’s) and all 503 precincts. The firm’s team
spent a month from April 17th to May 17th at the Detroit Department of Elections, where they
were permitted to view, but not touch the ballots.The DOE staff handled all ballots and assisted
in the counting process.
Key findings of the report, released on July 26th include:
• In two of the 134 counting boards, AVCB’s #79 and #122, the analysts paired up each
ballot envelope with its corresponding ballot application. This was a long and
painstaking process, according to the team leader, Erich Spekin.
Spekin and his team discovered that a significant percentage of the ballot applications
turned up missing.
Note: that under Michigan Election Law, a signed absent voter ballot application is an
eligibility requirement for absentee voting. MCL 168.759 states clearly:
Subject to section 761(2), a clerk or assistant clerk shall not deliver an absent voter ballot to an applicant
who does not sign the application.
Thus, a signed application is needed to obtain an absent voter ballot. Yet, in 20% of
cases in one Detroit absent voter counting board and 12% in another, this eligibility
requirement was not met. These ballots were therefore illegitimate and in a non-
corrupted election system would have been rejected.
• Spekin extrapolated the 20 and 12 percent numbers and stated:
It would follow that if all the boards were compared in this manner, with approximately 170,000 AV
ballots,
the range at 8%-20% would be 13,600 to 34,000 ballots with no application requesting the ballot
