Antrim County, Michigan, was the epicenter of election denialism in 2020 when County Clerk Sheryl Guy made a human error that caused the appearance of Joe Biden winning a deep red county of 23,000 people.
Antrim County then became the epicenter of conspiracy theories about Dominion Voting Systems machines.
- Guy, 63, Republican, and a 45-year career county employee, admitted the error of not properly preparing ballot scanners or the ballots themselves.
- Once the error was detected and fixed, a hand recount swung the erroneous count back to Trump winning the county.
- And then she became a target of Trump and MAGA, and was called an election rigger, while she and her staff received death threats.
“In one Michigan county alone,” Trump said on Jan. 6, “6,000 votes were switched from Trump to Biden.”
Guy then stepped down from her job as County Clerk after 12 years in the position.
A businesswoman named Victoria Bishop won a five-way race in the Republican primary, and with no Democrats in opposition, she was guaranteed a win.
Bishop’s husband, Randy, is a MAGA mouthpiece with a podcast, known on the show as Trucker Randy. Trucker Randy sued Sheryl Guy and Antrim County for $1 million, alleging his constitutional rights were violated. The lawsuit was eventually dismissed.
But with Bishop being an election denier herself, Sheryl Guy has chosen to re-enter the race as a write-in candidate, even after voting for Trump in 2016 and 2020.
She says she won’t vote for Trump again, and sees election skepticism cutting to the core of democracy.
“I would hope [Trump] would be respectful to the voters across the country,” Guy said. “And stay out of my county.”
