“Election-denying clerk ousted in recall: ‘Make Adams Township Boring Again’”

Bridge Michigan has the unofficial results on yesterday’s recall election of a Michigan town clerk:

Voters in deeply conservative Adams Township on Tuesday night rejected elections clerk Stephanie Scott, ousting the Republican official who questioned the accuracy of her own voting machines in a dispute that prompted a state police investigation. 

Unofficial results from Hillsdale County show Scott lost her recall election to independent challenger Suzy Roberts by a nearly 2-1 margin, with Roberts winning 406 votes to Scott’s 214.

Neither Scott nor Roberts immediately responded to Wednesday morning voicemails seeking comment on the election results. 

But Gail McClanahan, a 75-year-old retiree who organized a petition drive to force the recall election, called the results a win for local voters frustrated by the two-year saga that began in 2021, when the state stripped Scott of her ability to administer elections. 

“We’re just so happy that Adams Township believed us,” McClanahan told Bridge Michigan. “We said there’s no election fraud here. We’ve lived here all of our life.” 

She added that Roberts won, in part, because of her call to “Make Adams Township Boring Again.”

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