Rogue election denier clerk caught trying to purge voters in Trump’s ‘rigged’ county

This article was originally published by Votebeat, a nonprofit news organization covering local election administration and voting access.Votebeat is a nonprofit news organization reporting on voting access and election administration across the U.S. Sign up for Votebeat Michigan’s free newsletter here.This story was produced with support from the Pulitzer Center.ANTRIM COUNTY, Mich. — In the middle of March, Barb Mullaly wasn’t thinking much about elections.She was thinking about how it was allegedly going to be spring any day now, and yet it was still 30 degrees outside in Elk Rapids, her village on the shore of Grand Traverse Bay in Northern Michigan. She was thinking about the upcoming village council meeting in which she and her fellow council members would be criticized about a short-term rental ordinance.And now she was distracted, thinking about a postcard that was, excuse her French, “crappy” because it threatened her voter registration. (She had wanted...