The swearing-in ceremony for a new county Board of Commissioners in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula was supposed to take place Wednesday night is now been postponed indefinitely after the two GOP members of the Delta County Board of Canvassers refused to certify their election because the tallies of the votes in the three races was too proportional, Iron Mountain Daily News reports.

Seriously. “They’re basing their decision on the ratio of the votes, because two of (the races) have the exact same ratio and the third one was a similar ratio, so they think that that shows that the machines were somehow programmed with (an) algorithm,” said County Clerk Nancy Przewrocki, adding “I tried to tell them that the machines have been tested and the results came out exactly as they should. I have every confidence in our voting equipment because it’s always tested and in the recounts and the audits we have done, the ballot hand count has always come out exactly very close to… the tabulator results.” Problem is that three challengers defeated three incumbents with 72 percent of the vote to 27 percent, or 73 to 26 percent in the case of the third.

So the two canvassers – whose job does not entail deciding the validity of the election – refused to certify, with one them, Bonnie Hakkola the county GOP chairwoman, being advised by her son, Seth, who is active in the “Stop the Steal” movement. “A news release dated Monday but sent to the Daily Press late Tuesday by her son, Seth Hakkola, indicates local citizens working with members of Michigan-based groups that deny the validity of the 2020 presidential election have ‘identified certain statistical anomalies and suspicious voting ratios,'” the Iron Mountain Daily News writes.