Michigan GOP activists ask God, demand lawmakers deliver Arizona-style audit of 2020 election | Malachi Barrett/MLive.com
Conservative activists delivered several thousand signed affidavits to Michigan lawmakers Thursday, demanding an Arizona-style “forensic audit” of the 2020 election. A weeks-long campaign to gather signatures by members of the Michigan Republican Party and supporters of former President Donald Trump culminated in a Thursday rally that mixed religion and politics. Boxes containing the affidavits, some inscribed with Biblical verses, were blessed with prayer and anointed in oil on the steps of Michigan’s Capitol. Activists distrust audits completed by the Michigan Secretary of State and are demanding “a complete audit of the statewide election results and all votes, machines and software.” A few hundred people gathered outside the state Capitol for an event organized by Transformation Michigan, a religious nonprofit, and conservative groups. “If you wonder why we’re doing this at a prayer rally, that’s because we recognize that this is a spiritual battle,” said Patrick Colbeck, a former Republican lawmaker who has promoted election fraud allegations. Colbeck compared the 2020 election with the Biblical persecution of Jesus Christ. “The question ‘what is truth,’ which everybody is struggling with right now, was famously found in the Gospel,” Colbeck said. “Pontius Pilate is trying to put his political finger up in the air and figure out ‘should I go with the mob or should I go with what I know is the truth?’ He chose poorly. We want to make sure the folks in this building behind us don’t choose poorly anymore.”
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