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Residents raise precinct access, clerk filing practices and absentee-fraud allegations at Detroit budget hearing
Summary
Callers at the City Council budget hearing criticized polling-location moves, said the clerk's office is not filing appeal records as required, described problems with hiring electronic poll workers, and several callers made allegations of election misconduct.
Detroit residents used the council's budget hearing public-comment period to raise multiple concerns about election access, the clerk's office and allegations of election misconduct.
William M. Davis, who said he is precinct delegate for Precinct 410, urged the city to restore polling locations closer to residents: "I should not have to go over 3 miles to get to a precinct. There's, you know, a voting location that's over on time in the 96 of Sampson Webber. You know, before the pandemic, we used to vote at McKinsey, Elementary School, which is a short walk from my house. Now we have a lot of seniors in my area. Now they have to get a ride to go to a polling location." He called for the election bureau to do more public-service outreach to encourage voting.
A caller using the display name "You Matter" alleged a procedural problem…
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