2026-04-19T22:07:10.308Z / 美国有线电视新闻网（CNN）
作者：艾莉森·梅因
发布于 2026年4月19日，美国东部时间下午6:07
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密歇根州总检察长拒绝了美国司法部提出的调取底特律地区选票及其他投票材料的请求。底特律是特朗普政府调查所谓2020年总统选举失利州的目标之一，而特朗普曾 falsely 声称自己在这些州赢得了选举。
美国司法部民权事务助理部长哈米特·迪伦周二致函密歇根州人口最多的韦恩县负责选举事务的书记员，要求其在两周内提交2024年选举的所有选票、选票存根及选票信封。
密歇根州总检察长达娜·内塞尔周五作出回应，称唐纳德·特朗普总统及其盟友关于大规模选民欺诈的说法“毫无根据”，并警告称，州政府官员已准备好“驳斥这些主张，以及任何试图干预密歇根州选举的行为”。
迪伦解释称，联邦检察官希望确保上次总统选举的选票符合法律规定，这源于韦恩县的“历史”问题。
不过，她针对2020年选举提出的多项选民欺诈指控，均源自密歇根州一起被法院多次驳回的案件。法院认为，原告关于底特律市中心计票中心运作的指控缺乏可信度，该中心曾是阴谋论的焦点。
内塞尔强调，联邦、州及地方官员已多次确认，密歇根州不存在大规模选民欺诈的证据。她还指出，与韦恩县的总选民人数相比，其办公室起诉的2020年选举相关案件“微乎其微”。
在致迪伦的信中，内塞尔否认了司法部此次行动的合法性，称“关于选举欺诈的推测性证据”并不符合强制州政府移交选票的标准，且此次请求的范围过于宽泛。
CNN已就内塞尔的信函联系美国司法部。
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密歇根州的选举主要由当地书记员负责，他们需向县内上报投票数据。内塞尔认为，韦恩县境内留存2024年选票的43名书记员，无需回应与超出其管辖范围的指控相关的请求。
“自由公平的选举是我们民主的基石，”内塞尔写道，她承诺将竭尽所能保护密歇根州民众“投票的基本权利”。
密歇根州只是特朗普政府聚焦调查摇摆州旧选票的最新目标，这引发了人们对其在监管未来选举方面行动范围的担忧。
今年1月，联邦调查局从佐治亚州富尔顿县的一个选举中心缴获了2020年的选票。此前多年，特朗普曾向时任佐治亚州务卿布拉德·拉芬斯珀格施压，要求其“找出”选票，以推翻他在该州输给乔·拜登的结果。
在随后的法律诉讼中，富尔顿县的一名律师上月警告一名联邦法官，如果不对获取亚特兰大地区2020年选举记录的刑事搜查令进行审查，可能会助长特朗普政府在未来选举期间收缴选票的行为。
特朗普总统此前曾暗示，如果他认为各州未能充分履行宪法规定的选举管理职责，联邦政府可以“介入”选票计数工作。
Michigan attorney general rejects Trump administration ballot request amid broader push to challenge elections
2026-04-19T22:07:10.308Z / CNN
By Alison Main
PUBLISHED Apr 19, 2026, 6:07 PM ET
Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel on November 21, 2024, in Philadelphia.
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Michigan’s attorney general is rejecting an effort by the US Justice Department to obtain ballots and other voting materials from the Detroit area, a target of the Trump administration’s efforts to probe elections in states that the president falsely claims he won in 2020.
Harmeet Dhillon, the DOJ’s assistant attorney general for civil rights, sent a letter to the clerk who oversees elections in Wayne County, Michigan’s most populous, on Tuesday, requesting she turn over all ballots, ballot receipts and ballot envelopes from the 2024 election within two weeks.
Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel responded on Friday, calling President Donald Trump and his allies’ claims of widespread voter fraud “baseless” and warning that state leaders stand “ready to defend against these claims and any attempt to interfere in Michigan’s elections.”
Federal prosecutors want to ensure that ballots from the last presidential election are legally valid because of Wayne County’s “history,” Dhillon explains.
However, several of her allegations of voter fraud in the 2020 election stem from a Michigan case that courts repeatedly rejected, citing a lack of credibility in the plaintiffs’ claims about operations at Detroit’s downtown ballot-counting center — an epicenter of conspiracy theories.
Nessel emphasized that federal, state and local officials have repeatedly found no evidence of widespread voter fraud in Michigan, calling the few cases that her office prosecuted related to the 2020 election “infinitesimal” compared to the total number of voters in Wayne County.
In her letter to Dhillon, Nessel repudiated the basis of DOJ’s efforts, arguing that “speculative evidence of election fraud” does not meet the standard required to compel states to turnover ballots and that it is too broad in scope.
CNN has reached out to the Justice Department about Nessel’s letter.
Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon speaks during a news conference at the Justice Department on September 29, 2025 in Washington, DC.
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Michigan’s elections are largely administered by local clerks who report voting data to the county. Nessel contends that the 43 clerks throughout Wayne County who retain ballots from 2024 should not have to respond to a request related to allegations outside of their jurisdiction.
“Free and fair elections are the cornerstone of our democracy,” Nessel wrote, vowing to do everything in her power to protect the “fundamental right to vote” in Michigan.
Michigan is just the latest state that the Trump administration has focused in on in its efforts to probe old ballots from battleground states, sparking concerns about how far they will go in policing future elections.
The FBI seized 2020 ballots from a Fulton County, Georgia elections center in January, years after Trump pressured then-Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to “find” the votes to overturn his loss to Joe Biden in that state.
In the ensuing legal battle, a lawyer for Fulton County warned a federal judge last month that if he did not scrutinize the criminal search warrant used to obtain 2020 Atlanta-area election records, it could embolden the Trump administration to seize ballots in the midst of an election in the future.
The president has already suggested that the federal government could get “involved” in counting votes if he doesn’t believe states are doing their constitutional duty of administering elections adequately.
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