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Michigan Deniers

Administering Elections

The following Michigan county election administrators regularly repeat Trump’s claims of a stolen election or continue to spread disinformation about election integrity in the state:

  • Marvin Rubingh | Antrim County Board of Canvassers
    Marvin Rubingh, who serves on the county’s four-member Board of Canvassers through October 2025, has called Trump’s claims about the election being stolen “a credible accusation,” according to Detroit Free Press. He also chairs the Antrim County Republican Party.
  • Ann Weiler | Bay County Board of Canvassers
    In December 2022, Ann Weiler posted a graphic on her Facebook page that reads, “Ignoring evidence of election fraud because the election is already over is like ignoring a murder because the victim is already dead.” Under the image, she added the comment: “Spot on!” According to Rolling Stone, in January 2023 she also posted: “Wow!! I can’t wait till after the Next big election… We’ll get to find out more Binden [sic] corruption.”
  • Steve Frisbie | Calhoun County Board of Commissioners (District 4)
    In a January 2021 Facebook post, Steve Frisbie wrote about “evidence of election shenanigans,” “plenty of suspect issues in this election,” and his belief that ballots may have been secretly dumped at a Detroit voting center.
  • Bonnie Kazmar | Calhoun County Board of Canvassers
    In October 2021, Bonnie Kazmar posted on Facebook, “Who should be our president? Many of us know the answer to that question! ‘ALL 50 STATES NEED TO BE AUDITED!’ DECERTIFY!!!” In July 2022, she reposted a photo of a 66-year-old woman claiming that the person had pleaded guilty “in an Arizona Court of illegal ballot harvesting as seen in 2000 Mules.”
  • Anne Hill | Clinton County Board of Canvassers
    According to the Lansing City Pulse, Anne Hill worked with Pure Integrity for Michigan Elections in an attempt to discredit East Lansing election officials for the way they handled the 2020 election. This included a May 2022 report in which she accused them of counting almost 2,000 improper or illegal ballots in their election results.
  • Robert Froman | Kalamazoo County Board of Canvassers
    In August 2024, Robert Froman told the Detroit News that he believed the 2020 presidential election was “most definitely” stolen. He also said that he would refuse to certify the results in November if this election unfolds in the same way as the one in 2020.
  • Jeff Heppler | Kalamazoo County Board of Commissioners (District 7)
    In June 2022, Jeff Heppler proposed that the county ballots from the 2020 election be kept another two years until 2024 to allow for further inspection, even though no allegations of fraud had been made in the county. His proposal was voted down by other members of the commission who decried it as “an attempt to perpetuate the myth of fraud” in the 2020 presidential election.
  • Tom Antor | Kent County Board of Commissioners (District 2)
    In December 2020, Tom Antor posted a statement on Facebook that read, “TFC Center, Motown’s Ballot Manufacturing Facility […] where absentee ballots are created on demand.” In another Facebook post several weeks later, the commissioner showed a photo of Trump with a pre-election Gallup poll quote calling him “the most admired man in America” and predicting that Biden would get “only 6% of the vote.” He concluded his post by urging readers to: “Do the math, stop the steal.”
  • Nancy Tiseo | Macomb County Board of Canvassers
    In November 2020, Republican activist and county canvasser Nancy Tiseo tweeted that Trump should declare martial law, cancel the December 14 state meetings of Electoral College electors, and call off the Senate runoff elections in Georgia slated for January 2021. According to Slate, she also tweeted that “military tribunals” were needed to “properly investigate and resolve the cyber warfare 11-3-20 election issue.”
  • Kim Cyr | Muskegon County Board of Commissioners (District 1)
    Shortly after the attack on the Capitol, Kim Cyr voted against a resolution from the County Board of Commissioners to “denounce and condemn the shocking violence and destruction that occurred at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021.” As one of the Democratic commissioners was speaking in favor of the resolution, Cyr “could be seen and heard making sounds and gestures of disagreement and then exclaiming ‘What?’ when [her colleague] mentioned the ‘insurrection,’” according to MLive.
  • Bonnie Kellogg | Muskegon County Board of Canvassers
    In November 2020, Bonnie Kellogg shared an article on her Facebook page titled “Breaking Down the Greatest Electoral Heist In American History,” published by the right-wing Media Research Center.
  • Zach Lahring | Muskegon County Board of Commissioners (District 2)
    Shortly after the attack on the Capitol, Zach Lahring voted against a resolution from the County Board of Commissioners to “denounce and condemn the shocking violence and destruction that occurred at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021.” In explaining his objection to the resolution, he said that the wording “suggests that the Trump supporters were the ones creating acts of sedition and treason, [which] is absurd.”
  • Terry Marecki | Wayne County Board of Commissioners (District 9)
    In 2021, Terry Marecki made a motion to nominate Robert Boyd to the county Board of Canvassers because he said that he would not have certified the results of the 2020 election and criticized the board members who had. Although the motion wasn’t seconded, Boyd has since been appointed as a canvasser to help administer the 2024 presidential election.
  • Robert Boyd | Wayne County Board of Canvassers
    According to Detroit Free Press, Robert Boyd said that he would not have certified the results of the 2020 presidential election if he had been on the Board of Canvassers at the time. He also spoke about J6 conspiracy theories and voiced skepticism about certifying future elections.
  • Katherine Riley | Wayne County Boards of Canvassers
    Katherine Riley has continued to deny the results of the 2020 election, repeated election conspiracy narratives, and led training sessions (on behalf of Election Integrity Force) attempting to expose fraud in the 2020 election.

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