Michigan election audit affirms November presidential results, Benson says

https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/detroit/2021/02/12/michigan-election-audit-presidential-results/6738200002/

Clerks across the state retrieved ballots selected in their jurisdictions and reviewed the votes cast for president. In the hand count, Biden received more votes than former President Donald Trump and the share of votes each candidate received was within a fraction of a percentage point of the certified results, according to the Secretary of State's Office. President Joe Biden won the state by more than 154,000
"Although a random sample of 18,000 ballots would not be expected to exactly match the percentages of votes cast for candidates out of all 5.5 million ballots, the closeness in percentages between the hand-reviewed ballots and the machine-tabulated totals provides strong additional evidence of the accuracy of the machine count," the Secretary of State's Office said in a news release.
The state's three largest counties — Wayne, Oakland and Macomb — used voting machines from three different manufacturers to tabulate votes in the November election. The results of the audit fell within one percentage point of the certified election results in each county, the Secretary of State's Office said.

No cheating was found.