Out of 83 county clerks in Michigan, nearly two dozen have left office since November 2020, according to Ingham County Clerk Barb Byrum, who testified before Tuesday’s House Elections Committee. Byrum, who testified with Saginaw County Clerk Vanessa Guerra, said that’s in part due to a large workload for clerks who are responsible for campaign finance enforcement and serving as their jurisdiction's chief elections official. That role includes supervising elections, training election workers and programming tabulators, “all in about 15 days.” After an election, she said the process of certifying and recounting results is lengthy, and it’s likely that county
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