A former township clerk and current county elections supervisor in Michigan has been charged with ballot tampering in the state’s August 2020 primary.
Kathy Funk is also charged with misconduct in office, the Michigan attorney general’s office announced late Friday.
State prosecutors say Funk was Flint Township’s clerk when she purposely broke a seal on a ballot container. In doing so, they allege, she prevented votes inside from being counted in an anticipated recount, under Michigan law.
Funk was seeking re-election as clerk at the time, and won with 2,698 votes compared to 2,619 challenger Manya Triplett, MLive.com-The Flint Journal reported.
She ran as a Democrat, and held onto her position until November, when she announced she was taking a job as elections supervisor in the Genesee County Clerk-Register John Gleason’s office.
Funk has kept her job at the county despite a Michigan State Police investigation into her conduct in August 2020.
She is due back in Genesee District Court on Monday, when her attorney Matthew Norwood said she will plead not guilty to the charges against her.
If convicted, she faces up to 10 years in prison.
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