Appeals court drops charges against Michigan elections worker who downloaded voter list

An appeals tribunal dismissed charges against a Michigan election worker who enactment a USB flash thrust into an physics canvass publication and downloaded the names of voters astatine the adjacent of a superior predetermination successful 2022.

The court's conclusion: James Holkeboer's behaviour was improper but not a crime.

He was charged with predetermination fraud. But Holkeboer's lawyers pointed retired that the authorities instrumentality utilized by prosecutors lone bars acts that alteration the predetermination record.

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"The prosecution had to show that Holkeboer fraudulently removed oregon secreted the predetermination database of voters specified that the accusation was nary longer disposable oregon altered," the tribunal said successful a 3-0 sentiment Thursday.

An appeals tribunal has dismissed charges against a Michigan elections idiosyncratic who downloaded a elector list.

"Here, nary grounds was presented that predetermination accusation was altered oregon made unavailable" to section predetermination officials, the tribunal said.

Holkeboer's acts did not impact the results of the 2022 superior election. He was moving astatine a polling spot successful Kent County's Gaines Township, southbound of Grand Rapids, for the archetypal time.

Holkeboer, a Republican, told investigators that helium downloaded accusation astir voters due to the fact that helium wanted to comparison it to lists helium was seeking nether a abstracted nationalist records request, according to a summary of the case.

Kent County Clerk Lisa Posthumus Lyons, who oversees elections, said she's successful favour of an entreaty to the Michigan Supreme Court.

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"This breach of nationalist spot indispensable beryllium addressed," she said.