A disturbing video allegedly shows a politician with a friend who was involved in ballot stuffing in a key state where Donald Trump secured victory by just over 80,000 votes.
Abu Musa, a member of the city council in Hamtramck, Michigan, appears in the passenger seat, passing what seems to be several packets of absentee ballots to the driver.
Musa then watches the driver deposit three stacks of ballots into a drop box.
The Michigan State Police have verified the video, which was recorded on August 1, as part of a probe into whether council members meet residency requirements.
The suspected ballot stuffing occurred shortly before the city’s primary election on August 5, which Musa won, securing over 1,129 votes.
The footage was released a few days after two of Musa’s fellow councilmen, Muhtasin Sadman and Mohammed Hassan, were accused of ballot forgery in the city’s hotly contested 2023 election.
Musa was previously named as ‘under investigation’ in the same conspiracy – but was not charged at the time.
In a document from Attorney General Dana Nessel, who is seeking a special prosecutor for the 2023 case, it was alleged that Musa’s associates ‘planned to obtain unvoted absentee ballots signed by newly naturalized citizens.’
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
The accused then allegedly proceeded to ‘fill in the candidates of their choosing’ during the city’s 2023 elections, according to the document issued in April.
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.
The drama was ramped up when Attorney General Nessel then decided to recuse herself from the investigation because of criticism she had faced in the past.
Nessel, a Jewish lesbian, previously criticized policy positions taken by the Muslim-majority 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
Muhtasin Sadman and Mohammed Hassan, were charged over forging ballots in the city’s tightly-fought 2023 election. The new video, showing their colleague Musa helping stuff ballots into the box, comes just days after they were charged
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.
