Washington Post: “A Michigan judge on Tuesday rejected an effort to force a new audit of the 2020 election results in a county that has been central to false claims promoted by former president Donald Trump and his supporters that the election was stolen. Michigan Circuit Court Judge Kevin Elsenheimer dismissed a case brought by a voter in rural Antrim County who had argued that ‘material fraud or error’ had taken place in the election and that he was entitled to a new audit of the results under state law. The case was one of the last challenges to the November election results still pending in the nation’s courts. Its dismissal comes as Trump and his supporters have been pushing to conduct audits around the country in hopes of uncovering issues they say willsupport Trump’s baseless claims that he defeated President Biden.”

“Trump issued a statement last week referring to the case as ‘the major Michigan Election Fraud case’ and highlighting a new filing from the plaintiffs that argued votes had been switched from Trump to Biden. ‘The number of votes is MASSIVE and determinative. This will prove true in numerous other States,’ Trump said. But Elsenheimer ruled that a statewide post-election audit conducted by Michigan’s secretary of state’s office that concluded in March – which found the election had been conducted fairly and accurately – was sufficient to satisfy a state law that allows voters to request audits. Because of that, he said, the suit was moot, and he granted a motion to dismiss sought by Michigan’s secretary of state and the clerk of Antrim County.”