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Giuliani asked northern Michigan prosecutor to hand over voting machines to Trump team, report says

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ANTRIM COUNTY (WWJ) -- Rudy Giuliani had reportedly requested a northern Michigan county to hand over their voting machines following former President Donald Trump's loss in the Nov. 2020 election, The Washington Post reported Wednesday.

Rudy Giuliani and other legal advisers to Trump requested to obtain the machines in Antrim Country following the loss to Joe Biden, but the county's prosecutor said that he declined.


Antrim County prosecutor James Rossiter, a Republican, told the Post that he declined to send the voting machines to Trump's team during a telephone call after the county initially misreported its election results in favor of Biden.

"I said, 'I can't just say: give them here.' We don't have that magical power to just demand things as prosecutors. You need probable cause," Rossiter told the Post. "I never expected in my life I'd get a call like this."

The Antrim County prosecutor told the Post that Giuliani's team made the illegal request around Nov. 20, 2020.

The county's misreported votes were caused by a human error and quickly fixed. The incident didn't change the results certified by state election officials, either.

Trump was initially reported to have lost in Antrim County, but final results show he won with 9,748 votes to Biden's 5,960 votes.

But this made Antrim County the focus for election conspiracies used in the efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election.