An open forum was held at Lake Superior State University Saturday morning welcoming in Michigan's Attorney General Dana Nessel, attorney and voting rights advocate Aghogho Edevbie and ACLU representative John Petkus. Board of Canvassers Allyson Young was also present.
The topic was "Election Security and Integrity."
Around two dozen people attended with several topics being discussed from election interference to postal service mailing absentee ballots in a timely fashion to actual prosecution of people committing election fraud.
Attorney General Nessel emphasized that she trusts the local election officials and the state to have safe and secure elections.
"We have so many layers of protection built in that we can absolutely one-hundred percent trust our elections. We have so many systems in place of security that I think there is a lot of misinformation and disinformation out there about people who are not registered to vote or eligible to vote actually voting. But I can tell you first hand that it is not something that we see," Nessel said.
Towards the end of the event, the four took turns answering a handful of pre-written questions from some of those in attendance.
The League of Women's Voters of the Eastern Upper Peninsula (LWVEUP) hosted the event after taking around two months to get it organized.
Linda Stoetzer, from the LWVEUP, says they are a non-profit, non-partisan organization the does not endorse or oppose any candidate.
"We also do not endorse any ballot proposal without a significant study before hand," Stoetzer said.
