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Resident raises questions about Midland County canvass process, precinct-level write-in reporting

2421928 · February 21, 2025
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A Midland Township resident told the Board of State Canvassers she could not obtain precinct-level write-in tallies from the county’s early-voting aggregation and raised concerns about canvassing boards dividing into subgroups and holding discussions the public could not hear.

Renita Bonadies of Homer Township told the Michigan Board of State Canvassers that Midland County’s post-election canvass process did not provide precinct-level tallies for write-in votes from the early-voting center and that the county’s canvassing panel divided into subgroups whose discussions the public could not hear.

Bonadies said she attended the county canvass and several follow-up meetings and that the county’s official results presented early-voting returns as a single total rather than broken out by precinct. She said she compared Midland’s approach with other…

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