(CBS DETROIT) — Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel charged seven individuals from St. Clair Shores in an alleged double-voting incident , but the city’s mayor is calling on the state to drop the charges.
“There was no intent here; there was no intent for voter fraud, not at all,” said St. Clair Shores Mayor Kip Walby.
Walby said he is outraged that Nessel brought charges against four voters and three temporary election workers after alleged instances of double voting were discovered.
“If the attorney general really thinks it’s voter fraud, she should come down and interview them, and if she does, she will understand this is not voter fraud. These people did not intend to defraud the system, so she should come and interview these people,” Walby said.
Nessel announced the charges last week in a news conference.
St. Clair Shores residents Frank Prezzato, 68, Stacy Kramer, 56, Douglas Kempkins, Jr., 44, and Geneva O’Day, 62, each face one count of voting absentee and in-person, a five-year felony, and one count of offering to vote more than once, a four-year felony. The four were charged with one count of voting absentee and in-person, a five-year felony, and one count of voting more than once, a four-year felony.