Judge rejects Kristina Karamo lawsuit targeting Detroit voters ahead of midterm election

In a blistering opinion issued the day before the midterm election, Wayne County Circuit Court Judge Timothy Kenny Monday rejected a request from Kristina Karamo — the Republican vying to serve as Michigan's next chief elections officer — to expand election observers' access in Detroit's absentee ballot counting room and subject Detroit voters and election officials to a different set of rules than the rest of the state.

In his order Monday, Kenny dismissed the lawsuit, which was filed less than two weeks before the midterm election and initially asked the court to halt the count of absentee ballots for the Nov. 8 election not requested in person by Detroit voters.

"Plaintiffs have raised a false flag of election law violations and corruption concerning Detroit's procedures for the November 8th election," Kenny wrote in his opinion. "This Court's ruling takes down that flag."

Kenny said that those who brought the lawsuit "sat on their hands for months before bringing a complaint" that "would create the potential harm of disenfranchising tens of thousands of Detroiters" in the election Tuesday.

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