Local officials educate on elections process to increase trust [Video]

LOWELL, Mich. — “I want more than anything for our voters to have faith in that system, to have trust in the process and confidence in the outcomes of the election,” Kent County Clerk Lisa Posthumus Lyons said as she spoke to community members in Lowell Tuesday night.

Lyons was one of several local election officials and experts gathered at the local Kent District Library branch as part of a meeting hosted by the group Keep Our Republic to tell the community how the election process works.

“How do we build that group of trusted, local individuals so when mom or dad or grandpa and grandpa see an ad, get that phone call, they can turn to someone and say ‘Is this real? How do …