How Michigan Republicans’ campaign is a ‘direct attack on democracy’

Roebuck, like clerks in other counties, has sought to reassure voters with greater transparency about how the counting process works and in the training of poll workers. He said that many of them are persuaded of the legitimacy of the vote once they see the system at work. But, like Thomas, he said there was a small hardcore intent on challenging any outcome they do not like. 

"There's probably about a 10% portion of the population that has truly bought into the notion that our elections were stolen, and I'm not sure how successful I will be in convincing those folks because I have had a lot of those conversations where it's just very difficult to get through to people with the facts," he said... 

…One Michigan county clerk hired a Trump supporter to recruit poll workers who was filmed urging people to storm the Capitol in Washington on 6 January 2021 and joined white nationalist Proud Boys rallies at the state legislature. 

All of this leaves Roebuck despairing of his own party: "Our voters deserve honesty. Sometimes it can be a political advantage for candidates to go down a different path to use talking points about election integrity or election misinformation, but I don't think it's an advantage to our society in the long term," he said…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/nov/05/michigan-republicans-election-process-midterms