From Michigan comes news of more of that election fraud that doesn’t exist.
Two Hamtramck city councilmen were arraigned Tuesday on election fraud charges.
During separate hearings in Hamtramck’s 31st District Court, Muhtasin Sadman and Mohammed Hassan were arraigned on multiple counts, including forging signatures on absentee ballot applications, and election law forgery.
Mohammed Hassan is a Democrat. I can’t find a political affiliation for Sadman, but I would bet money he is as well.
A not guilty plea was entered on behalf of the defendants, who did not speak during their short hearings.
District Judge Alexis G. Krot set a personal bond for both councilmen, who must surrender their passports. The judge also ordered the media to turn off their recording devices during each hearing, and ordered the defendants to avoid contact with witnesses who the judge wanted to remain anonymous.
Separate preliminary examinations for the councilmen were scheduled for 9 a.m. Aug. 28. Probable cause conferences were rescheduled for Aug. 21.
Following each hearing, Jeffery Maynard, Sadman’s attorney, and Scott Ruark, Hassan’s attorney, declined to comment.
The charges follow a two-month investigation by the Monroe County Prosecutor’s Office, which was appointed by the Prosecuting Attorneys Association of Michigan to look into the allegations.
In April, Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel’s office requested a special prosecutor to explore allegations that Hassan, Sadman and others who have not been charged conspired to receive unvoted absentee ballots that had been signed by recently naturalized citizens, and then filling in the candidates of their choosing. In June, the Prosecuting Attorneys Association of Michigan selected the Monroe County prosecutor to explore the accusations.
Sounds like the immigrant-to-Democrat voting fraud pipeline is alive and well in Michigan.
“Sadman forged an absentee ballot application with the intent to defraud and aided or counselled two unqualified electors to vote in the 2023 election,” Monroe County prosecutors said in a Monday press release. “It is further alleged that Council Member Mohammed Kamrul Hassan also forged an absentee ballot application with the intent to defraud in the 2023 election for City Council. Several law enforcement agencies conducted thorough investigations and submitted their findings to our office.”
Did either defendant have anything to say for himself? Yes. “The charges are made up to make the Bangladesh and Muslim communities to look bad.”
Oh yeah, he’s guilty as sin.
That post also noted some curious voting patterns in that election:
In the August Primary Election, [Nayeem Leon] Choudhury was the top vote-getter but, in the November election, he fell to fifth place out of a field of six candidates – an unheard-of drop-off for a top contender.
And Sadman, an obscure newcomer to politics, rose from fifth place in the primary election to the number two spot in the November election.
Hassan rose from fourth place — right behind Lynn Blasey, the only female in the election — to go on to become the top-vote getter in November’s election.
Hassan and Sadman’s sudden rise in the November election edged out Blasey from taking a seat on council.
Choudhury also claimed, that in the November 2023 election, 200 absentee ballots had not been counted.
Asked why he made this claim, Choudhury told The Review at the time:
“I don’t know, the whole community is shocked and saddened that they voted for me by absentee ballots — over a thousand. They don’t know why I lost against a candidate that came in fifth place in the primary.”
Once again, note the willingness of Democratic politicians to (allegedly) commit voting fraud in a relatively low stakes City Council election. Does anyone doubt that they’d be even more willing to break the law in higher-stakes elections? And remember that Michigan was one of those states with 3 AM ballot shenanigans in 2020.
Also note the evidence of plenty more illegal shenanigans going on there. “The investigation was initiated by suspended City Manager Max Garbarino. After Garbarino made the allegations in May, amid a visit by the FBI, he suspended Police Chief Jamiel Altaheri. The City Council, prompted by Mayor Amer Ghalib, in turn suspended Garbarino.”
“The people responsible for the previous suspensions have been suspended.”
Here’s to hoping a lot of disinfecting sunlight gets shined under all the dark rocks of Hamtramck’s government…
(Hat tip: Dwight.)
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Hamtramck is completely surrounded by the City of Detroit and was, until recently, a very Polish city. The Poles all worked at Dodge Main, the automobile plant. Chrysler closed the factory in 1980, but GM bought some of its land for the Detroit/Hamtramck Assembly in 1981. GM Poletown does not employ anywhere near the number of workers Chrysler employed at the site.
Since 2010, Hamtramck has been the fastest growing city in Michigan. Its population increased about 40% since the 2010 census. Most of the new residents are Bengali or Yemeni. Some legal, many not.
This election fraud investigation actually began as a residency investigation against two other councilmen. The city hired a private investigator who found that council members Muhith Mahmood and Abu Musa do not reside in Hamtramck. This is illegal, but a long established practice among Michigan’s Arab politicians. Rashida Tlaib never lived in her state legislative districts, either. Michigan’s Democratic prosecutors ignore these antics among their favored political groups. The residency allegations are how the Chief of Police got involved, and haw he got crosswise with the mayor and council.
Muhtasin Sadman is a real estate guy who practices in Macomb County, north of Wayne County, in which Hamtramck exists. He probably does not reside in Hamtramck either. He has never confirmed a political affiliation. His loyalties are firmly attached to the American dollar, as are the loyalties of everyone else in this sordid saga.
During the course of the residency investigation, at least 5 councilmen and one other individual were observed committing absentee ballot harvesting on video:
Mohammed Hassan, Muhtasin Sadman, Mohammed Alsomiri, and Abu Musa, as well as former councilman Nayeem Choudhury, who lost his reelection bid in 2023. A political operative named Tyrone Slappey was also videoed with an abundance of presumably fake absentee ballots.
It should be noted that the Hamtramck City Council only has 6 seats. The only Councilman not implicated is Khalil Refai, the Mayor Pro Tem. He was absent during most of 2023, when these events occurred. Refai said the reason for his absence was because of “family obligations due to medical issues unfortunately, but everything is well now thanks God.”
However, during the first meeting after he returned, Refai referred to his absence a “great vacation.”
Why would anyone think that people who come from a country that does not have a tradition of democracy and honest politics would feel any obligation to follow the rules in our country
I like that the mob manager called out the “Asian” criminals.
In The Rocketeer, the mobsters join up with LE to stop the Nazis.
And, of course, I am joking about the Italian being in the mob. As we know, there is no such thing as the Mafia.
“Once again, note the willingness of Democratic politicians to (allegedly) commit voting fraud in a relatively low stakes City Council election.”
As the saying goes, “The fights were so vicious because the stakes were so low.”
“Once again, note the willingness of Democratic politicians to (allegedly) commit voting fraud in a relatively low stakes City Council election.”
As the saying goes, “The fights were so vicious because the stakes were so low.”
In Michigan, city governments have total control over real estate zoning and code enforcement. This incentivizes real estate hustlers to control city governments because with total control they can make many millions and drive out the kafirs.
“The charges are made up to make the Bangladesh and Muslim communities to look bad.”
Absent “made up” charges, these dirty rotten crooks would be models of probity.
Michigan has an open primary, hence no declaration of party affiliation when registering to vote. It also has non-partisan elections for municipal offices in cities such as Hamtramck, so unless one runs as a candidate in a partisan election or is a member of a party county or state committee, one cannot be identified conclusively as a party affiliate.
GM didn’t just buy the abandoned Dodge Main and some of Hamtramck … it acquired 362 acres under eminent domain to build its factory, displacing 1,400 homes, 4,200 residents, 140 businesses, and several churches. A Jewish cemetery, which GM promised to move, was left in place and a wall was built around it. The Michigan Supreme Court upheld the acquisition with the same reasoning as the later execrable SCOTUS Kelo decision … that the seizure of private property for private economic development was a legitimate use of eminent domain and Mayor Coleman Young was all in for it.