Group Seeking To “Unlock Michigan” Busted On Tape

The Detroit Free Press reports:

A company collecting signatures to strip Gov. Gretchen Whitmer [photo] of her emergency powers coached paid petition circulators on giving voters false information, illegally collecting signatures without witnessing them, trespassing on private property, and even lying under oath, a secretly recorded videotape shows.

The video showing Erik Tisinger, a trainer for the California signature company In the Field, Inc., was secretly recorded Sept. 4 by a representative of Keep Michigan Safe — the group opposing the Unlock Michigan effort — and made available to the Free Press.

The profanity-peppered training session provides an inside look at the world of paid signature gatherers and could potentially pose problems for Unlock Michigan’s attempts to certify the close to 500,000 signatures the group hopes to collect.

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In secret recording, trainer for Unlock Michigan advises on unlawful signature-gathering tactics

“They got caught red-handed again, and they’re trying to weasel out of it,” said Mark Fisk, a spokesman for Keep Michigan Safe.https://t.co/9wLuMQnwhL via @paulegan4

— Chad Livengood (@ChadLivengood) September 22, 2020