Flint's city clerk is defending her office’s handling of absentee ballot applications ahead of the next month’s primary election.
This month the ACLU alleged the Flint City Clerk needed to speed up the processing of absentee ballot requests. A judge ordered the clerk’s office to clear a backlog of applications.
Flint City Clerk Inez Brown says more than 11 thousand requests have been processed and nearly a third of primary ballots have been returned.
“We are up to date contrary to what anybody may say," said Brown. "We are up to date.”
Brown criticized those who have questioned her office’s handling of the absentee ballot applications accusing them of “suppressing the vote” by raising doubt in voters’ minds.