Michigan city councilman caught on camera stuffing election drop box with absentee ballots days before primary | 17 Aug 2025 | A Michigan city council member was caught on camera stuffing an election drop box with apparent absentee ballots just days before he won his re-election bid in a local primary. Hamtramck City Council member Abu Musa was seen in the passenger seat of a car on Aug. 1 handing stacks of paper to the car’s driver, who then dumped them into a nearby ballot box, footage obtained by Local 4 appears to show. Musa held on to his re-election spot in the primary four days later on Aug. 5, beating out 11 other candidates with 1,129 votes. But only 286 of those votes were cast on Election Day — with 843 being cast by absentee ballot, the Daily Mail reported. Musa would have placed fifth without the absentee ballots, according to the Mail.