LANSING, Mich. — State Sen. Dayna Polehanki, D-Livonia, said Monday she plans to sponsor a bill that would impose penalties for pressuring, coercing or intimidating election workers in Michigan to violate the law.
Polehanki's comments came after The Detroit News reported Friday that supporters of Donald Trump had urged Livonia Clerk Susan Nash to hand over hard drives and voting machine data for "analysis" in the weeks after Trump, the then Republican president, lost the 2020 presidential election to Democrat Joe Biden.
In a statement to Attorney General Dana Nessel's office earlier this year, Nash said one of the exchanges she had about the equipment left her feeling threatened. And after she refused to go along with the requests to make the hard drives and data available, the Livonia clerk told family members she "would not break the law," according to the statement.
