A chilling video has allegedly shown a lawmaker accompanying a friend who stuffed ballots in a swing state that Donald Trump only won by just over 80,000 votes.
Abu Musa, city council member of Hamtramck, Michigan, was seen in the passenger seat of the black car handing several bundles of what appears to be absentee ballots to the driver.
Musa then watches the driver deposit three stacks of ballots into a drop box.
Michigan State Police confirmed the authenticity of the clip, which was filmed on August 1. It is part of an investigation into council members’ residency requirements.
The alleged ballot box stuffing incident took place just before the city’s latest primary election on August 5 – which Musa won.
The video comes just days after two of Musa’s councilmen colleagues, Muhtasin Sadman and Mohammed Hassan, were charged over forging ballots in the city’s tightly-fought 2023 election.
Musa was previously named as ‘under investigation’ in the same conspiracy, but was not charged.
According to a document that Attorney General Dana Nessel issued in April requesting a special prosecutor in the 2023 case, two of Musa’s colleagues had ‘conspired to receive unvoted absentee ballots that had been signed by recently naturalized citizens.’
The accused then allegedly proceeded to ‘fill in the candidates of their choosing’ during the city’s 2023 elections.
Surveillance video obtained by 7 News Detroit appears to show Councilman Abu Musa in the passenger seat of a vehicle as another man deposits three stacks of ballots at a city drop box just days before the primary election
Abu Musa, city council member from Hamtramck, Michigan
Musa received the most votes in the August 5 primary election, per unofficial election results released on August 6 – receiving 12.5 percent of total votes in a field of 12 candidates.
Of the total 1,129 votes received by Musa, 843 were cast by absentee ballot. The 286 total of election day votes received by Musa is only the fifth-highest tally.
Hamtramck’s council was embroiled in the election forgery scandal earlier this year – and Sadman and Hassan were charged on August 11, while two other council members, Musa and Mohammed Alsomiri were not charged at the time.
Nessel recused herself from the investigation into the council members because she had previously criticized policy positions taken by the council to ban Pride flags from being flown on city-owned property.
The Michigan Attorney General had also ‘been criticized for her prosecutions of pro Palestinian protestors at the University of Michigan.’
Nessel was additionally accused of prosecuting the campus protestors due to ‘bias against Muslims and/or people of Arab descent’ and foresaw similar criticisms coming her way in this case, as five of the defendants ‘are of Arab descent.’
Hamtamack, a city in Metro Detroit, has a population just over 28,000 residents, which is over 70 percent Muslim. The city became the first in America to be governed by an all-Muslim council in 2022.
Musa received the most votes in the August 5th primary election, per unofficial election results released on August 6 – receiving 12.5 percent of total votes in a field of 12 candidates
The ballot drop box is seen here. The alleged ballot box stuffing incident took place just before the city’s latest primary election on August 5
Detroit’s Local 4 News reported that the initial investigation began ‘after the city clerk noticed unusual patterns with absentee ballots – including identical handwriting on multiple envelopes and large bundles of ballots submitted at once.’
Hamtramck City Clerk Rana Faraj told Votebeat that ‘state laws are clear that your ballot should only be handled by you or a family member,’ adding that ‘everyone’s cousins around here.’
The council is made up of six members, and three slots are up for election every two years. Members serve four-year terms.
Donald Trump won Michigan’s 15 electoral votes in 2024 with 49.7 percent of the votes to Kamala Harris’ 48.3 percent.
Hamtramck’s Mayor Amer Ghalib made waves last year after endorsing Trump for President as the mayor of America’s first Muslim-majority city.
Trump later nominated Ghalib to be the Ambassador to the State of Kuwait.
Daily Mail have contacted Musa for comment.
