Novi Times

A legal group wants to know whose absentee ballots were tossed out in the city of Southfield and why. 

It's all a part of a lawsuit filed in Lansing by the Public Interest Legal Foundation against Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson for failing to release public records related to the 193 absentee ballots that were cancelled by Southfield City Clerk Sherikia Hawkins during the 2018 general election.

J. Christian Adams, President and General Counsel of the Public Interest Legal Foundation, spoke about the lawsuit on "The Frank Beckmann Show."

"It's real simple. In Southfield 193 citizens -- and we don't know who they are yet -- 193 residents of Michigan had their absentee ballots nullified by the clerk," Adams said on Beckmann's show.

Adams, author of a book called "Injustice: Exposing the Racial Agenda of the Obama Justice Department," said this was a real example of voter suppression. He also said finding out why those voters were chosen to be tossed out is important.

"An election official in Southfield, Michigan, went through a list of people who cast absentee ballots and decided to throw out the votes of 193 citizens," Adams said on Beckmann's show.

Adams accused Benson of hiding public records by not identifying who those voters were.  

"The facts are the whole story is being hidden," Adams told Beckmann. 

He said the public has a right to know, since Hawkins, an election official in the city of Southfield, was arrested in connection to the ordeal. He said Hawkins rigged voter records by cancelling those 193 votes, something which he said should never happen in an American election. Adams said government records are supposed to be transparent, and election records, by law, are public. 

"Maybe when some grownups in the attorney general's office see the case, the public will get the information that the public has a right to get," Adams told Beckmann.