Candidate Beverly Kindle-Walker Makes Case to Be Next Detroit City Clerk

Beverly Kindle-Walker says she would better meet the required 24-hour turnaround time for absentee voter application requests.

The primary election for Detroit is on Tuesday, Aug. 3. Janice Winfrey, the four-term incumbent, is being challenged by three candidates. The top two winners of this race will face off in a runoff in November. Beverly Kindle-Walker is a first-time candidate for the office and believes she can do the job better than Winfrey.

“It’s just a simple procedure of being accountable with your staffing who is manning the election board and is making sure we have pride in our work.”  –Beverly Kindle-Walker


Listen: Beverly Kindle-Walker explains why she should be Detroit’s next city clerk.


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Beverly Kindle-Walker is a legislative assistant to Wayne County Commissioner Tim Killeen and ran for the county treasurer position in prior elections. Kindle-Walker believes she can do a better job than Janice Winfrey at counting ballots and being responsible for absentee voting. “It’s just a simple procedure of being careful with your staffing, who is manning the election board and is making sure we have pride in our work,” she says.

Kindle-Walker adds she believes there is “corruption” in the process of collecting absentee ballots, but says there is no voter fraud and no one is voting twice.


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As for how she would take on absentee ballot counting, Kindle-Walker says you need more people in the office who can make sure the application requests are processed in the mandated 24-hour turnaround time. To do this, she would use the COVID-19 relief money Detroit received from the federal government, as well as seek out funding from Detroit’s philanthropy sector as a sustained, “dedicated effort.”

Web story written by Dan Netter

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