Thread by @jennycohn1

Wow. “A long-awaited report on the 2020 election from a GOP-controlled Michigan Senate committee recommended that Democratic AG Dana Nessel consider investigating individuals who pushed false claims ‘to raise money or publicity for their own ends.’” 1/ detroitnews.com/story/news/pol…

2/ “The suggestion was among the most striking details of the Senate Oversight Committee's recap of a months-long examination of the presidential election.” The report’s main author, Sen. Ed McBroom, R-Vulcan, said he found "’no evidence of widespread or systematic fraud…’”

3/ "’The committee finds those promoting Antrim County as the prime evidence of a nationwide conspiracy to steal the election place all other statements and actions they make in a position of zero credibility,’ the report said.”

“In an interview after the meeting, McBroom said the [Michigan Senate Oversight] committee has found what appears to be ‘potentially fraudulent activity’ among some individuals who have been making false claims about the election.” [Woah. I think he means Team Trump.] 4/

"’If you are profiting by making false claims, that's pretty much the definition of fraud,’ McBroom said.” 5/

“The report was developed through 28 hours of committee testimony from about 90 people, a review of thousands of subpoenaed documents and hundreds of hours of Senate staff investigation, according to the document.” 6/

“The committee contacted 40 people on the list of 1,500 and found two individuals who claimed they received an absentee ballot without making a request. One is listed on state rolls as a ‘permanent’ absentee voter and the other had voted absentee in the August primary.” 7/

“[S]ome of the report's most aggressive comments are aimed at individuals who've made faulty claims about the election in 23K-person Antrim County, where…the failure to update equipment after changing the ballot design, led to incorrect initial results.” 8/

“The initial election results reported to the public for the conservative county had Biden winning there by 3,260 votes with 62% of the overall total. Problems were quickly identified but inspired national conspiracy theories about Dominion Voting Systems…” 9/

"’Events in Antrim County sparked a significant amount of concern about the technology used to count ballots,’ the…report said. ‘This concern led to much speculation, assumptions, misinformation and, in some cases, outright lies meant to create doubt & confusion.’” 10/

The “‘many hours of testimony before the committee showed these claims are unjustified and unfair to the people of Antrim County and the state of Michigan.’” 11/

12/ “After realizing there were problems with the numbers, Antrim County Clerk Sheryl Guy's office canvassed the election results and later reported the official tallies: Trump had won the county by 3,788 votes, 61%-37%, a 7,048-vote swing from the unofficial results.”

13/ The “new Senate committee report emphasized that the official results and the outcome of a hand recount closely mirrored the tallies from the tapes of tabulators immediately after Election Day.”

14/ “‘The numbers show ‘ideas and speculation that the Antrim election workers or outside entities manipulated the vote by hand or electronically are indefensible,’ the [GOP-led Michigan] Senate report said.”

14/ "’Further, the committee is appalled at what can only be deduced as a willful ignorance or avoidance of this proof perpetuated by some leading such speculation,’ the report added.”

15/ “the report's conclusions directly conflict with the statements of some GOP activists and Trump himself, who have levied unsubstantiated claims of widespread wrongdoing in Michigan and sought to overturn the battleground state's election results…”

.@threadreaderapp Plz unroll

16/ Naturally, TFG is targeting the Republican Senator who wrote the report.