With growing numbers of accusations of fraud, a local group is joining the national call for an investigation of the presidential election. David Hopkins reports.

Progressive Action’s Charles Gessert says his organization is joining Michigan Congressman John Conyers to call for a nonpartisan investigation into possible voting irregularities. Gessert has lost some faith in the electoral system. “I’m nearly 60 years old, and for the first time in my life over the last four years my confidence in the electoral process has been shaken.” Gessert noted that the irregularities in question are in Ohio, Florida, North Carolina among oher states. Progressive Action activist Sharla Gardner of Duluth noted that voting irregularities are also suspected in Duluth. “People were turned away, people left, people were intimidated. Vouchers, people who came to vouch for people, were intimidated down at the Duluth Public Linrary. They were told untruths by republican poll watchers. They were told that there was a $10,000 fine for voter fraud and they had to know the person that they were vouching for. And that they could not vouch for more than one person. And none of these things were true.” Gessert says the time since the election makes perfect sense to let emotions cool, and to alleviate initial false charges. He says the investigation of the issues that remain on the table should be handled by the U-S Government Accounting Office.

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