Post-election lawsuits related to the 2020 United States presidential election from Michigan
The Donald Trump 2020 presidential campaign launched numerous lawsuits contesting the election processes of Michigan. All of these were either dismissed or dropped. Summary of post-election lawsuits Bailey v. Antrim County On November 23, 2020, William Bailey filed a lawsuit against Antrim County in Circuit Court and was represented by Matthew DePerno, who later would run as the Republican nominee for Attorney General. The case was about the election results of a proposed local ordinance in the Village of Central Lake, where a damaged ballot could not be scanned. Judge Kevin Elsenheimer issued a temporary restraining order for a forensic exam of the county's voting machines and allowed Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson to intervene in the case. Subsequently, DePerno published the forensic exam report by Russ Ramsland, who was a Republican congressional nominee. On December 14, Michigan's top election officials denounced Ramsland's 23-page report. In a Senate hearing, Chris Krebs testified as Trump's appointed Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and described Ramsland's report as "factually inaccurate". Another Trump-appointee, William Barr called Ramsland's conclusions out as "nonsense". On May 25, 2021, the Circuit Court dismissed plaintiff’s claims as moot because the plaintiff has no right under