The Macomb County Clerk’s Office is offering an online service where users can view images of the more than 80,000 ballots cast in the last election and those going forward. County Clerk Anthony Forlini introduced the “ballot verifier” service on its website provided on software by Civera company earlier this week at a news conference attended by Civera founder and CEO Adam Friedman and a half-dozen local-community clerks in the county in the Elections Division office in Mount Clemens. “This is really a great way of being able to provide for our citizens a method of accountability, transparency,” Forlini said at the conference Monday. Online access is available by clicking on the “ Past elections results ” in the “Elections” section of the Clerk’s Office website that went live the same day. It provides side-by-side images of the ballot and the records that interpret the ballot and other information, such as the serial number of the voting machine and tabulator used for that ballot. Visitors can pare down the search to the precinct level. “By showing these side-by-side, anyone can instantly see whether there are any discrepancies,” officials said in a news release. The s
