Election Official Convicted for Ballot Tampering

Over in the state of Michigan, a woman who is both a county election official, as well as a former township clerk, was convicted of tampering with ballots during the 2020 election cycle. Specifically, during the recount process, this woman, using her official access, spoiled a batch of ballots in order to make them ineligible to be counted again. Although to really explain what happened here, let me back up for a quick moment and set the stage for you properly. To start with, this right here is Miss Kathy Funk. She's a Democrat, and back in the year 2020, she was both the Flint, Michigan township clerk, as well as an election official. And in August of 2020, she was up for re-election as the clerk of Flint township. Now, just on the surface, you might already see a bit of a conflict of interest here, because this woman, she was both on the ballot for re-election, but she was also an election official herself, in charge of conducting her very own election. Regardless, no one seemed to really mind, and so that's how things were set up. So, the August election took place, and in an unofficial count, Miss Kathy Funk won her re-election. However, her margin of victory was extremely slim. The tally showed that the votes were 2,698 to 2,619, meaning that Miss Kathy Funk won that election by just 79 votes. And so, with such a slim margin, her opponent, Miss Manya Triplett, was considering asking for an official recount. However, this is where things, you can say, got a little bit weird, because before a recount could actually take place, Miss Kathy Funk, who, again, herself, at this time, was an election official, she filed a police report with the local Flint township police department, claiming that there was a break-in at the elections office, and that an official seal on one of the canisters containing ballots had been broken. She claimed that someone had broken into the office, and then subsequently, broke an official seal on one of the batches of ballots. And the reason that this was so important, is because it made an actual recount completely impossible. Because, you see, under section 168.871 of Michigan state law, this is the relevant law that governs recounts, it says the following, quote, And then, right underneath that, the very first circumstance that's listed, under which a recount cannot take place, says the following, quote, And wouldn't you know it, that is exactly what happened. Since the seal on those election ballots were broken, the challenger had to give up her intention of conducting a recount. And as such, Miss Kathy Funk was certified as the official election winner. However, what's interesting to note, is that Kathy Funk did not remain as a township clerk for very long. Instead, shortly after the election, she actually resigned her position as the Flint township clerk, to instead become the Genesee County's election supervisor, the top election official within the entire county. However, her life in public service was cut short. That's because, as I alluded to earlier, according to the Michigan Attorney General, well, there was no random break-in at the elections office in the year 2020. Instead, after conducting a full investigation, the Michigan Attorney General found that it was Miss Kathy Funk herself who broke the seals and the ballots, so that a recount was impossible. Here was what the official statement from the Attorney General's office in Michigan said when announcing the charges, quote, The Department of Attorney General alleges that Kathy Funk purposely broke a seal on a ballot container so that the votes inside, under Michigan election law, could not be counted in an anticipated recount. Funk was running for re-election and narrowly prevailed in the unofficial count. Miss Kathy Funk then had two charges lobbied against her, ballot tampering, as well as misconduct in office, both of which I should mention are felonies, each punishable by up to five years in prison. But don't worry, she got nowhere near 10 years in prison. Instead, what appears to have happened is that the first charge, the ballot tampering charge, was somehow dropped, and she pled no contest to the second charge, misconduct in office. And then after a year of legal back and forth, Miss Kathy Funk was sentenced to, quote, And as a justification for why she was given such a light sentence, light compared to what it could have been, the judge in the case said the following to her at the actual sentencing, quote, And if we had unlimited jail space, perhaps that's true, but we don't. And so there you have it. Tampering with a ballot, making a recount impossible, and falsifying a police report will lead to probation, a $1,000 fine, and you will have to write a letter of apology because after all, our jails are full. That is, if nothing else, amazing. If you'd like to read the details regarding this particular case, I'll throw the links to all my research notes. You'll be able to find them down in the description box below, which I should mention is that description box right below those like and subscribe buttons, both of which I hope you take a quick moment to smash so that the YouTube algorithm will be quite literally forced to share this video out to ever more people. All right, just to pause here for a super quick moment. Here's a question. Why is it that we live in such an advanced era of human history in terms of both technology as well as medical breakthroughs? But you still have millions and tens of millions of Americans who are more unhealthy and more overweight than ever before. 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