Judge Rejects Michigan GOP Candidate’s Request to Disqualify Mail-In Ballots in Detroit

A judge has rejected a request by Michigan secretary of state candidate Kristina Karamo to reject mail-in ballots from Detroit for the midterm elections.
Karamo, a Republican, filed a lawsuit several weeks ago seeking to disqualify absentee ballots in only Detroit, which overwhelmingly votes for Democrats, and require them to show up in person on Nov. 8. She said the mail-in ballot counting system in Detroit violates election law.
But a judge in Wayne County, Timothy Kenny, dismissed her lawsuit (pdf) and claimed she “raised a false flag of election law violations and corruption concerning Detroit’s procedures for the November 8th election,” adding: “This Court’s ruling takes down that flag.”…}