Michigan official slams racial 'stereotypes' in mail-voting robocalls

A top official in the Michigan, a battleground U.S. election state, on Thursday condemned a computerized phone call campaign for using "racially charged stereotypes" to discourage voting by mail.Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, a Democrat and the state's top election official, posted on Twitter a recording of the robocall, in which a person made false claims that people who vote by mail could be subject to more scrutiny by police and by credit card companies seeking payment."My office