Worst Mich. clerk will shape election reforms | Politically Speaking

Worst Mich. clerk will shape election reforms | Politically Speaking
"Somehow, some way, Detroit City Clerk Janice Winfrey has been named to serve on an election reform committee created by Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson.
Despite Winfrey’s wayward reputation for Election Day messes, Benson may have decided that the panel had to include the clerk from Michigan’s largest city.
...The incumbent clerk barely won re-election after an aggressive campaign by Lt. Gov. Gilchrist that focused substantial criticism on the botched election process she oversaw in 2016.
When Gilchrist sought a recount, a review of the vote was deemed impossible – just as in the 2016 presidential election — because ballots at numerous precincts were badly mishandled.
Now, Benson has appointed Winfrey to a 25-member Election Modernization Advisory Committee to help oversee implementation of reforms approved by state voters attached to Proposal 3 last November.
Winfrey and the group will study ways to make Michigan “a national model for clean, efficient and secure elections,” the secretary of state said..."