The Detroit Free Press has a deep dive into the state’s law on access to voting machines:

At the heart of the investigation into an alleged conspiracy to seize voting machines in the wake of the 2020 presidential election lies a question about Michigan election law: Who is allowed to have access to the voting machines and when?

DJ Hilson, the special prosecutor investigating the alleged plot, has asked the court to weigh in on the matter, filing a request earlier this year seeking a legal interpretation of Michigan election law in Oakland County Circuit Court. It’s a move he and Oakland County Circuit Court Judge Phyllis McMillen — who’s presiding over the case — acknowledge is unusual….

Hilson asked the Oakland County Circuit Court in March to issue a declaratory judgment finding that the “undue possession” of voting machines prohibited under the law is “possession that is not authorized by the Secretary of State or by court order.” By his reading, Michigan election law does not “allow for a clerk to unilaterally relinquish the custody of a voting machine.”