Michigan's 2022 midterm election is officially in the books.
On Monday the Board of State Canvassers unanimously certified the election during a more than four-hour meeting.
In a 4-0 decision, Michigan's bipartisan elections board voted to confirm what county boards around the state had already determined in the last few weeks: that the 2022 midterm election results were accurate and fair.
Statewide, Democrats were successful in retaining top leadership roles, with wins for Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, Attorney General Dana Nessel and Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson. For the first time since the 1980s, Democrats won both chambers of the state legislature.
“There’s been nothing presented to us that calls those results into question,” Tony Daunt, the Republican chair of the Michigan Board of State Canvassers, said.
Daunt said he felt confident in his vote to certify because the margins in the top races were not close, with many reaching into the double digits.
He also said the results had already been approved by dozens of counties and clerks from both parties, and he was confident in the work of those officials.
Daunt also chastised some audience members and politicians during Monday's meeting, saying he believed it was dangerous to make "reckless allegations" and that he was disappointed to see people promoting conspiracy theories to encourage others to question election results.
While canvassers were all in agreeance, they were met with many angry audience members, some of whom claimed canvassers could be charged with treason for certifying the election.
"Whether you know it or not: you could be charged with treason for aiding and abetting the enemy,” one commenter, who identified herself Darcy Guello, said.
Two people were asked to leave after repeatedly disrupting the meeting.
One man was threatened with a trespassing charge after he refused to leave the meeting for several minutes after an outburst. The man's refusal, which led to the canvassers going on recess and being escorted out of the room, ended after he hurled expletives at the canvassers and was forced out by multiple Michigan State Police troopers.
Another woman was escorted out after interjecting in the meeting more than a dozen times.
Speakers included multiple candidates for office in the most recent election, including Republican Secretary of State candidate Kristina Karamo, who lost her election by nearly 14 points.
Republicans on the board, who have at times been skeptical when it comes to the election issues placed before them, joined Democratic canvassers in backing up their belief in the election's validity.
“We keep hearing allegations of fraud and allegations of mismanagement of an election," Republican canvasser Richard Houskamp told one commenter. "That is not what the evidence says in any of those documents.”
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