IT WAS NOT JUST GBI STRATEGIES! Multiple MI Clerks Reported Receiving Late Voter Registrations – Include Photos from MI SOS Jocelyn Benson’s Office Marked “PPE” – Delivered Only ONE Day Before Election – What’s Going On?
Last week, we reported about a whistleblower who shared a Facebook page Michigan clerks used to discuss issues they faced related to elections. The conversations we found between city and county clerks and, in at least one case, a top election official working for MI SOS Jocelyn Benson appear to be very telling of how Michigan’s dishonest Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson really runs her elections.
On August 1, 2020, only three days before the August 4 Primary Election in Michigan, a Michigan city clerk asked fellow clerks if they were also getting “last minute voter registrations from SOS Jocelyn Benson’s Bureau of Elections.
“Anyone else getting emails of last-minute voter registrations from the Bureau of Election? I have to wonder what’s going on, I received one today, and the only information on the voter registration was an address…nothing else, no date, no name, no signature, absolutely nothing but an address. What did they expect me to do with it, and why bother sending it?”
“We got 34 of them at 10 pm on Friday. Most dated back to mid-June and early July.”
“Yet we, as clerks, are expected to respond to requests within 24 hours of receiving them. smh”
“Me too! Four of them dated back in early July – so we have deadlines, but the Secretary of State doesn’t??”
One clerk responded, “Yep, dating back until 6/18 last one was sent at 1:12 am!
Since the clerk had a time stamp on when she received the voter registrations, it’s likely she received them by email from the SOS’s Dept. of Elections.
Another clerk revealed that she just got a “Federal Post Card Application dated and postmarked June 30″sent to her county. Keep in mind, these registrations were for the election taking place the NEXT day, yet the registrations were postmarked June 30th. What was the reason for dumping all of these registrations on city clerks on the day before the election?
“Same here – got 4 via email” said another clerk.
Ann Meisch, the Muskegon City Clerk who reported the thousands of absentee voter registrations less than one month before the general election, shared an image of the 185 voter registrations she received from SOS Benson’s elections office:
“Today I was hopeful that the rest of our PPE supplies had finally arrived for tomorrow. Instead we received 185 voter registration applications – many dates in June! They were in several envelopes labeled masks but when opened, they are registrations. I don’t know if I’m just numb, in shock, or just getting use to the new way Elections are now handled? The day before the Election!” Clerk Meisch wrote
And the hits against the Democrat SOS Jocelyn Benson just kept coming…
“I received 4 emails from the Bureau (of Elections) late last night and each one had one registration attached. They were dated early July,” the clerk wrote, while others simply wrote, “same” and “me too” related to comments made about having last-minute dumps of voter registrations from Jocelyn Benson’s Bureau of Elections.
Another clerk claimed she “received 4 emails from the Bureau and each one had one registration attached. They were dated in early July.”
“Yes. About a dozen today?????” another clerk wrote.
And yet another clerk writes, “Received 15 today, but could not register several of them and there was no contact information on the form.” A clerk responds, “SMH” (shaking my head).
It should be noted: From the Michigan Secretary of State website:
Within 14 days of an election, and on Election Day, voters may only register by visiting their local clerk’s office to register in person with proof of residency documentation.
It is obvious that this did not pass protocol.
Another frustrated city clerk shared a photo of a box of voter registration forms from the SOS office on the day before the election. A clerk commented on the same post and said that the same thing happened to her, adding that some of the registrations sent to her on August 3, 2020, were from JUNE! Another clerk on the thread claims SOS Benson’s office has “done a terrible job” and “certainly makes the clerk’s job a lot more difficult!”
“Sorry, but the State of Michigan has done a terrible job and certainly making the clerk’s job much more difficult!”
“Same here. I don’t understand why they were holding on to them so long. Some of mine were from June?! Nice present the day before the election.”
With the primary election behind them, the MI clerks were faced with more questions about peculiar registrations they received at their offices.
On September 24, 2020, a Michigan city clerk shared a story on the same Facebook page of a voter who brought a new registration application into her office that was “sent to them by the SOS.” The clerk states that she “can’t add him to the system because the registration form doesn’t include his DOB (Date of Birth). The clerk asks the other clerks if they have any “suggestions on how to handle it?”
“Had a voter bring in the new registration form sent to them by the SOS. We can’t add him to the system, because it doesn’t have his DOB…..suggestions on how to handle it?”
The clerk’s post included a photo of the voter registration form.
A MI city clerk, whose name has also been redacted, responded to her post by referring to SOS Benson as the “Secretary of Silliness,” saying, “it wasn’t supposed to go to us.”
The clerk appears to suggest the MI SOS Jocelyn Benson’s office would make the necessary changes to the application instead of requiring the alleged applicant to make the corrections to the application that would make it valid.
“Forward to them, and they will handle it. Wink wink,” she wrote. She then claims she “sent the one we got redacted to our state rep,” telling the other clerks to “Contact me, and I’ll send you the reply we got.”
The clerk’s state representative is Rep. Ann Bollin (R), who was also the Chair of the MI House Election Integrity Committee at the time.
We’re unsure about the action her state rep took, but we will follow up with Rep. Ann Bollin on this story.
Lori Bourbonais, director of the Michigan Bureau of Elections, who was (and may still be) a member of the MI Clerk’s Facebook page, commented on the post above, where the clerks were expressing their frustration (and it appears their distrust) with the sloppy way SOS Benson is handling elections after receiving a voter registration from her election office with no date of birth.
Here the response by Lori Bourbonais to the post above:
These forms are designed to be returned to and processed by the State of Michigan.
If you receive this form in person, you would want that person to complete the standard voter registration form. That would guarantee you would have all the information you would need to process the application. If you receive the form by mail or if form is brought in by someone else and you can’t get all the information you need, you can scan and forward the form to Shelly Belton at beltons@michigan.gov. These forms are a part of the ERIC program (a third-party voter registration organization that has been dropped by several states that had hired them to manage their voter rolls)
The clerk told Ms. Bourbonais, director of Jocelyn Benson’s election administration division whose name we couldn’t locate on the MI SOS website, that it “would’ve been nice if we knew that…instead of looking like fools when someone shows up and flings it across the counter at us.” Another clerk added, “I totally agree! We are not given any advance warning or updates!”
On May 8, during a House Appropriations Committee meeting, Rep. Ann Bollin called on the Democrat-led House to pass critical common sense election integrity amendments to Proposal 2, the most radical vote-cheating amendment to ever pass without any approval by lawmakers.
Among the other amendments turned down by Democrats was a requirement to provide a report containing the number of election-related complaints received by the Michigan Attorney General’s Office and the number of substantiated complaints the AG addresses.
“Reports of potential election intimidation and election interference must be taken seriously and investigated,” Bollin said. “We have a responsibility to protect our local clerks and election workers.”
Another rejected amendment would have provided information about how many voters register in a new community within 60 days of an election, and change their registration to another location within the 60 days following an election.
“If voters are jumping from one jurisdiction to another to try to swing votes in certain elections, we need to be aware of it,” Bollin said.
Other rejected amendments would have required the Secretary of State’s Office to issue a report on the Electronic Registration Information Center (ERIC), its requirements, and the actions the state must take to maintain its membership, and required the Secretary of State to explore options outside of ERIC that would allow the state to maintain an accurate Qualified Voter File.
On Monday, the AP published an article titled:
Trump’s false claims about his 2020 election loss aren’t going anywhere. If anything, they’re growing louder.
The mainstream media, like AG Nessel and SOS Benson, have hidden the bombshell investigation into a statewide fraudulent voter registration operation the Gateway Pundit exposed last month. If they were serious journalists, they wouldn’t be so surprised that Americans are refusing to give up
Nine days after the 2020 election, the federal Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency issued a statement saying, “The November 3rd election was the most secure in American history.” The statement was co-written by the groups representing the top elections officials in every state.
Less than three weeks later, then-Attorney General William Barr declared that a Justice Department investigation had not uncovered evidence of the widespread voter fraud that Trump had claimed was at the center of a massive conspiracy to steal the election. Barr, who had directed U.S. attorneys and FBI agents across the country to pursue “substantial allegations” of voting irregularities, said, “To date, we have not seen fraud on a scale that could have effected a different outcome in the election.”
Can someone explain how the former AG Bill Barr could say there was no evidence of “widespread voter fraud” when he must have known about the statewide voter registration voter fraud investigation that was taking place across the state of Michigan?
Michigan Clerk Explains Broken Election Laws, How Jocelyn Benson’s Office Insisted Illegal Voter Be Allowed to Register and Cast Vote in 2020
Baldwin Township is a small Michigan jurisdiction with just 1,600 residents, and a smaller number of voters. So when a fake registration was filed to vote in 2020 by a Canadian citizen, Clerk Cathy Pittsley knew that it wasn’t a real voter and she had the time to investigate and determine the voter wasn’t real.
“The first danger sign was that I could never get ahold of them, by phone or mail.”
“They didn’t have any ID, they didn’t have any serious proof they lived in the district, and they certainly had nothing to show that they had met the basic legal requirements to be considered a resident or a voter,” Pittsley told the Gateway Pundit. “There were all these red flags, but they were responding over email.”
CLERK EXPLAINS HOW BROKEN MICH. VOTING LAWS ARE
“She said all of her identification had burned up in a fire five years ago, and when I looked up the address she provided as her residence, it wasn’t in the tax records, utility records, it didn’t show up anywhere. Since this is a small town, I decided to do my own investigation.”
Pittsley went out to the address provided and found that it was an empty field. There was a dilapidated storage building that clearly hadn’t been in use over the last 30 years she said. There was nowhere that someone could conceivably live. “There wasn’t even a driveway. I can’t find any record of anyone paying taxes at this address. No signature provided so there’s nothing to check their ballot against, and no ID.”
So Clerk Pittsley told the prospective voter that, according to state law, there was nothing she could do without some proof of residence or proper identification.
Within the hour she had received a threatening call from the Secretary of State however. Far-left Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, who oversees Michigan’s elections, was having her deputies in the Bureau of Elections threaten Pittsley to have the prospective voter registered immediately.
“They gave me four hours to have her registered, or else. I didn’t think this was a fight worth having.” After pressure from the Secretary of State’s office she was forced to register the voter.
SECRETARY OF STATE’S OFFICE THREATENS CLERK TO REGISTER ILLEGAL VOTER
The Department cited to both the UOCAVA and the LEAVE Act, which provide for military ballots to be treated differently, and for American citizens abroad to have the ability to cast votes based on their “last known address” in America.
Clerk Pittsley explained to the Gateway Pundit: “This registration to vote came in without any identification, with an address that seemed suspect, and with a story that wasn’t credible, and she hadn’t lived in America in over 30 years. She still wanted to vote in the 2020 election though, but she wanted her absentee ballot sent to British Columbia.”
Because of loopholes in election law, there was an argument about whether it was a valid legal request. The military and citizens abroad voting laws allow anyone to register for an absentee for any reason and turn it in via email. Clerks refer to these voters as UOCAVA voters, referencing the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act.
“My jurisdiction only has 1,600 people, but if you think that this is for sure happening here and I just happened to catch this one because it was so obvious, if it’s happening elsewhere at the same rate that’s thousands of other illegal voters across the country.”
“I wasn’t able to confirm this was a real human being, but they were allowed to vote and cast an absentee ballot in 2020.”
“This Is Very Suspect and DEMANDS an Investigation from Lawmakers!” – The Gateway Pundit’s Jim Hoft on The War Room: Michigan SOS Jocelyn Benson Was Also Caught Sending and Accepting Garbage-Incomplete Voter Registrations (VIDEO)
by Jim Hoft
Earlier today investigative reporter Patty McMurray released the latest report in our ongoing investigation of GBI Strategies and the Democrat’s national voter registration scandal in the 2020 election.
On Thursday The Gateway Pundit reported that multiple clerks in several Michigan counties reported on their private Facebook group that they had received last minute packages from the Secretary of State’s Bureau of Election’s office the day before the 2020 election. They were expected to enter these suspect registrations, many of them were not even filled out despite the fact that this clearly broke election law in Michigan.
The Michigan Secretary of State’s website says there is only one way to register to vote within 14 days of an election. You must go to the clerk’s office with proper identification.
“Within 14 days of an election, and on Election Day, voters may only register by visiting their local clerk’s office to register in person with proof of residency documentation.”
Obviously, the Secretary of State was not following her own guidelines!
On Thursday morning Jim Hoft discussed this latest development on The War Room.
Jim Hoft: Steve, well as you know, we first broke this story that there were 8000 to 10,000 suspected fraudulent registrations in Muskegon, Michigan in 2020. The AG came back and confirmed our reporting days later, which was interesting. They didn’t rebut anything. They just confirmed what we had reported on the War Room. Last week, we released the fact that we had some whistleblowers who came to us, Steve, and they let us inside a Michigan Clerk’s Facebook page, a private page. And from that page we found out, Steve, and we reported this on the War Room, that this wasn’t just in Muskegon. This wasn’t just in one county. It was happening in several counties where GBI Strategies was sending packages of these suspected fraudulent registrations to counties around the state of Michigan. So this wasn’t just an isolated incident.
Today, Steve, we have a big report. I’m so glad you had me on to talk about this. Patty McMurray, our friend, wrote this report today. What we have from this Facebook page group now is – It wasn’t just GBI Strategies, but it was the Secretary of State’s office, the Bureau of Elections, that was sending these clerks, these what appears to be fraudulent ballots or registrations!
…Some (registrations) didn’t have dates, some didn’t have signatures, and they were sending these. Not only did they appear to be absolutely fraudulent, but they were sending them within the deadline. They’re not supposed to accept these. The clerks aren’t supposed to accept these. Let me read you what it says on Jocelyn Benson Secretary of State’s website. It says, “Within 14 days of the election and on Election Day, the voters may only register in Michigan in person at the clerk’s office.” So the only way they could register would be to go to the clerk’s office in all these counties and register. Instead, you have the Secretary of State’s office sending out these packages late at night. They were getting emails. They were also emailing these registrations. This is very suspect, and it demands an investigation from lawmakers.
Newly Discovered Michigan Election Corruption Parallels Georgia!
by Jim Hᴏft
Guest post by Bob Cushman – The Freedom Press
Michigan Voter Registration Fraud
The entire state of Michigan owes a special thank you to The Gateway Pundit, Jim Hoft, Patty McMurray, Ben Wetmore, Dr. Phil O’Hallaron, Braden Giacobazzi, and Ann Meisch for the recent bombshell revelation of massive amounts of fraudulent voter registrations and the ensuing cover-up by the Michigan State Police and the FBI.
Excerpts for The Gateway Post Articles
“On August 8, the Gateway Pundit revealed a major fraudulent voter registration operation that had been under investigation for almost 3 years in Michigan that spanned several cities across the state. Although the investigation involved lead investigators working for Michigan’s Democrat Attorney General Dana Nessel and at least one analyst working for Democrat Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, the true depth of the investigation and the shocking details uncovered by the MI State Police and Muskegon Police Department were hidden from the public. Publications like The Detroit News downplayed the investigation and wrote an article to debunk a MI STATE POLICE REPORT titled, Michigan probe into fraudulent voter registrations referred to FBI, suggesting that the Gateway Pundit was a conspiracy site for daring to report on the details found in the MI State Police report we obtained exclusively from Phil O’Halloran of MI-District 9 and Director of Election Integrity for the MI GOP.”
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“Three weeks ago, the MI GOP Director of Election Integrity, Phil O’Halloran, gave Patty McMurray and Jim Hoft of the Gateway Pundit a stunning MI State Police report that was FOIA’d by a Muskegon resident who questioned the outcome of his race in the 2020 election. The report is based on an investigation that was initiated on October 8, 2020, that was eventually taken over by the FBI in 2022.
After publishing the report that exposed a massive cover-up by Michigan’s Democrat Attorney General Dana Nessel and Democrat Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson of an explosive, statewide investigation by the MI State Police, Muskegon, MI Police Department, we began to receive tips from individuals who read our story and wanted to help us close the gaps in the highly redacted MI State Police report.”
Today, The Gateway Pundit reprinted a Blockbuster article from Georgia that parallels the fraud in Michigan! The author, Chris Gleason, and a contributor from the Epoch Times, Steven Kovac, along with help from Wisconsin’s “Election Watch” Peter Bernegger that made the EXPLOSIVE.
Georgia Election Fraud and Money Laundering
Revelation: Fani Willis liked to Massive Election Watch Fraud and Money Laundering RICO Enterprise”!
The article states: “In the lead up to the 2022 midterm elections, my team uncovered a massive money laundering network of campaign finance contributions being made via ActBlue. One of the top beneficiaries of this money laundering RICO enterprise was none other than Georgia Senator Raphael Warnock.”
It further states: “Working with the Epoch Times investigative journalist Steven Kovac, we made a stunning find. Many of the top ActBlue “Contributors” never made the individual contributions. Many of these “Not Employed Individual Contributors” were the victims of a highly sophisticated money laundering scheme.
“The scheme was further exposed when I provided the data to James O’Keefe and his people at O’Keefe Media Group who captured many unwitting “Money Laundering Smurfs” in Maryland.
This massive ongoing money laundering operation involves wire fraud, evasion of campaign finance limits, structuring of financial transactions, tax fraud, non profit fraud, identity theft, and elder abuse.”
“The RICO operation is still in operation today. Using the identities of unwitting elderly, and other democrat voters, this massive RICO money laundering enterprise is the fuel for the entire election fraud RICO operation.”
Michigan Money Laundering as related to Election Fraud
Today, Bob Cushman, reporter for The Freedom Press, began to “follow the money” of the Muskegon, MI voter registration fraud to see if he could begin to duplicate the kind of Money Laundering that was discovered in Georgia. The results are as follows:
This chart is a bit complicated, so we will explain.
Open Secrets reports that during the 2020 campaign cycle the following entities funded GBI Strategies:
Eight known smurfs were used to “Follow The Money”. It was found that all 8 smurfs contributed money to DSCC (Democratic Senate Campaign Committee) and Biden Campaign which in turn paid for the services of GBI Strategies. It was also found that all 8 smurfs contributed money directly to Michigan’s Governor Gretchen Whitmer, Senator Warnock of Georgia and Senator Mark Kelly of Arizona.
All of the smurfs met the typical smurf definition of large total dollar amount of donations, large number of donations, small average donation and elderly with majority out of state.
The eight smurfs averaged giving $57,046.94 each with 9,325 donations each while only averaging $10.57 per donation. The average age of the smurfs was 74 years old. This precisely fits the M.O. of the established smurf impersonations by the persons or entities that have stolen these seniors identities for this illegal, illicit purpose. The current working theory is that the FEC and/or ActBlue and or a consultant company known as GMMB are complicit in this money laundering that is believed to be over $200,000,000 and possibly into the billions!
The belief is that these 8 smurfs along with tens of thousands of other smurfs have laundered massive amounts of money into the entire FEC system as well as state campaign coffers as previous shown below or click here:
It currently appear that Michigan’s fraudulent voter registration efforts as covered up by Dana Nessel and the FBI, along with the massive Money Laundering that is being exposed will qualify this as a RICO operation.
As in the Georgia case:
This massive ongoing money laundering operation involves wire fraud, evasion of campaign finance limits, structuring of financial transactions, tax fraud, non profit fraud, identity theft, and elder abuse.”
“The RICO operation is still in operation today. Using the identities of unwitting elderly, and other democrat voters, this massive RICO money laundering enterprise is the fuel for the entire election fraud RICO operation.”
“They Know That We’re On to Them” – ULTRA MAGA PARTY Releases New Video Featuring The Gateway Pundit and Massive Michigan Voter Registration Scandal (VIDEO)
Max Evans and ULTRA MAGA PARTY put together one of their powerful and entertaining videos featuring our reporting on the highly organized Michigan voter registration scandal.
In our earlier report we exposed a massive cover-up by Michigan’s Democrat Attorney General Dana Nessel and Democrat Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson of an explosive, statewide investigation by the MI State Police, Muskegon, MI Police Department. Since that first report The Gateway Pundit began to receive tips from individuals who read our story and wanted to help us close the gaps in the highly redacted MI State Police report.
On Friday Patty McMurray and Ben Wetmore published an explosive development from Michigan. A whistleblower cantacted TGP and explained there was much more to this story than ONE city clerk receiving boxes of suspicious voter registrations. In fact, clerks across the state of Michigan received numeous boxes, packages, and priority mail envelopes stuffed with registrations, many of them with the same signatures, the same last four numbers of their social security number, fake names and fake addresses.
The Gateway Pundit’s Jim Hoft joined Natalie Winters on The War Room on Friday to discuss our latest breaking report on the Democrat ballot registration scandal.
And Max Evans used his creative genius to produce this amazing video!
Enjoy!
PS: There’s much more to come!
MAJOR DISCOVERY! Soros-Funded MI SOS Jocelyn Benson’s Voter Rolls Contain “Over 48,000 NON-LEGAL Voter Registrations at Trailer Parks and Apartment Housing Addresses”
HUGE DISCOVERY! Soros-Funded MI SOS Jocelyn Benson’s Voter Rolls Contain “Over 48,000 NON-LEGAL voter registrations at Trailer Parks and Apartment Housing Addresses”
100 Percent Fed Up exclusive – Just as clean voter rolls are the heartbeat of election integrity, bloated and inaccurate rolls invite misconduct and abuse. Until now, voter roll information, required by law to be transparent, has been out of reach to most citizens and even to many election clerks. In response, a Michigan-based nonprofit organization has piloted a voter roll cleanup program. Check My Vote (CMV) features user-friendly software and brings publicly available information in the state’s voter rolls to users’ fingertips.
A few clicks of the mouse, and residents and election clerks alike can view their own voting histories and the registered voters in their area—at no charge. The secrecy of a person’s ballot is protected, of course, but whether the individual voted absentee or in person during past elections is public information.
Check My Vote co-founder Tim Vetter (right) and Dr. Frank discuss Michigan’s voter roll data anomalies during Frank’s visit to Westland, Michigan on June 28, 2022.
“User feedback is helping us put Michigan on the cutting edge of voter roll truth and accuracy,” said Tim Vetter, co-developer and co-founder of checkmyvote.org.
Over the past several months, Michigan Fair Elections has piloted its Soles to the Rolls program among its statewide network of volunteers. “The county task forces beta-tested checkmyvote.org and provided feedback,” Patrice Johnson, chair of MFE, said. “The result is greater transparency and improved ease of access to Michigan’s voter rolls. Now, we’re pleased to roll out the program statewide.”
“Dirty voter rolls are a national security issue. Every citizen should be concerned,” said Vetter. “It’s a citizen’s right and duty to participate in a fair election process, and Soles to the Rolls is designed to encourage participation, regardless of a person’s technology skillset.”
Vetter, a manufacturing equipment engineer by trade, understands the critical value of timely and accurate information. “At work, all decisions are data-driven,” he said. “If my source data is not accurate, my company could waste millions of dollars per hour. It’s better to have no data than to have wrong data.”
When asked to describe the importance of accurate election data, Vetter replied, “We citizens have one tool for expressing our voice in this representative government of ours. We have our vote. Asking me the value of my vote is like asking me the value of my freedom.”
Vetter invited readers to go to the CMV website and take a look at the dashboard, designed to assist residents and clerks in every election jurisdiction across the state. “I encourage all Michigan citizens to become a part of MFE’s Soles to the Rolls effort. Use the newly developed digital tools for yourself and assist your local, hardworking clerk to clean Michigan’s Qualified Voter File (QVF) and keep it clean.”
“Anyone who opposes checks and balances on our elections might as well try to argue that football games should have no referees,” said Phani Mantravadi, co-founder of checkmyvote.org. “Human nature is what it is, so wherever power and money are involved, the temptation to cheat is too great for some. This is why the Founding Fathers of this nation enacted the U.S. Constitution.”
The same reasons gave rise to federal transparency laws and compelled state lawmakers to enact laws requiring equal numbers of Democrat and Republican election inspectors at the polls. “Questioning minds help keep everyone honest,” Mantravadi, an information technology engineer, said with a wry grin. He and his wife, Aldona, have three children and are residents of Livingston County.
“With the support of Michigan patriots and our elected clerks, we hope to shut down illegal absentee ballot stuffing operations.” Vetter was referring to “2000 Mules,” a documentary film that showed video security footage of ballot harvesters, called mules, stuffing quantities of ballots into absentee drop boxes nationwide and allegedly rigging the 2020 Presidential Election.
“Every stuffed ballot is required by law to be paired with a voter registration in the Qualified Voter File. This further highlights the importance of clean and accurate voter rolls.” Vetter’s characteristic smile topped his white goatee. “We have three girls by marriage, with two adopted into our family with eight grandchildren, all under the age of five. They are the reason I’m working to defend the integrity of every person’s ballot.” He and his wife, Ann, of 33 years, reside in Oakland County.
To achieve the goal of accurate voter rolls, Vetter says, “CMV [Check Mv Vote] provides the necessary tools for Michiganians, Soles to the Rolls volunteers, and election clerks to support each other in identifying and removing irregularities from our voter rolls.”
In the unlikely event that a registrant is mistakenly removed from the rolls, a Michigan resident need only re-register at their local clerk’s office as late as on Election Day.
To take a deep dive into questionable and inaccurate voter registrations, checkmyvote.org users simply click a few menu items.
Significant need
By Michigan Compiled Law (MCL 168.495 (b)), a voter registration must meet 14 requirements, one of which includes having a complete address. If living in an apartment or mobile home park, registrants must include their apartment or lot number so the U.S. Postal Service is able to deliver an absentee ballot if requested.
“Statewide, the QVF contains over 48,000 voter registrations at trailer park and apartment housing addresses that are missing apartment or lot numbers.” Vetter tapped a few keys, and examples populated his computer screen. “This disqualifies these registrations. They are non-legal and need to be completed or eliminated.”
“In the past four years–since Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson enrolled the state in the Electronic Registration Information Center (ERIC) in 2019–non-legal addresses have spiraled out of control,” Vetter noted. “The SOS Benson may claim otherwise, but the facts and data prove our QVF data quality has gotten significantly worse since that time.”
“Inaccurate and non-standard apartment or lot numbers are a serious issue,” Mantravadi added, and he cautioned those who might feel tempted toward wrongdoing. “Volunteers across the state are tracking and monitoring every address in Michigan. We’re watching for spikes and other anomalies.”
Mantravadi encouraged readers to set their video resolution to view at the best quality and watch this short video below. “You’ll see how easy it is to resolve these unlawful and non-standard address problems.” He questioned why Benson would waste taxpayer money on the state’s membership in ERIC. “She could simply provide clerks with the basic tools they need to clean the QVF.” Since she has failed to do her job, he said hardworking volunteers are filling the gap.
According to the April 2023 QVF, 592 registered voters are located at the Landmark, a high-rise apartment building at 1300 S. University Avenue in Ann Arbor, Mich. Here the 173 apartments average 3.4 registrations each. Of the 126 legal registrants at this location, 113 (90%) voted. Of the 113 votes, nine had no apartment number. Some voter registrations from this location include non-existent apartment numbers. One registrant is listed as residing in an apartment on the 19th floor of this 14-story building.
“This is the sort of discrepancy our volunteers are working with election clerks to identify and resolve,” Johnson said.
Michigan Election Law places complete responsibility with the county, city, and township clerks to verify the accuracy of the names and addresses of registered electors in the QVF. (MCL 168.509r (1))
“When we factor in the myriad ways new voter registrations and voter registration modifications are auto-generated into the QVF, we begin to grasp how data integrity, quality control, and verifications become a monumental challenge for the clerk’s office,” Vetter said.
Mission of Soles to the Rolls
By law, the local jurisdiction clerk has the authority to use any “other means the clerk considers appropriate” to accomplish the cleanup of our voter rolls (Section 168.509dd). By ensuring the integrity of the voter rolls, volunteers can confirm that active registrations and ballots belong to actual living persons at the addresses of record. This is the goal behind MFE’s Soles to the Rolls program and its new Check My Vote.org (CMV) website.
“Our goal is simple. We are helping to clean Michigan’s QVF and keep it clean,” MFE Chair Johnson emphasized. “We have a right to fair elections and a civic duty to participate in the process.”
The new CMV website includes a “Clerk’s Dashboard” to assist in cleaning the QVF by monitoring existing and new registrations and flagging anomalies. Access to the dashboard is limited to clerks, law enforcement, and approved election integrity volunteers.
“We are hoping to approve more volunteers, and we need everyone’s help,” Vetter said.
Volunteer signup for MFE’s Soles to the Rolls
Sign up to learn more here
Functionality of the CMV website
Every voter in Michigan now has the ability to audit their address and/or voting history using the CMV website. Any individual can now audit any address in Michigan. CMV’s QVF audit data is updated every month using statewide data from the Secretary of State. Data geeks will want to check CMV’s “Data Analysis” menu. Here they will find Excel workbooks updated every month with helpful videos describing the data analysis.
After becoming an active volunteer in the Soles to the Roles program, those who become digital canvassers benefit from free access to monthly public QVF data downloads for all counties in Michigan. In the past month dedicated digital canvassers from Soles to the Rolls have compiled over 130,000 standard apartment and lot locations. Click here to view a big-picture video of this effort.
Stronger together
Citizen participation in Soles to the Rolls will bring communities and clerks together to enhance the accuracy of the state’s voter rolls and restore integrity to Michigan’s elections.
MFE invites citizens and clerks to join its dedicated team of volunteers.
MFE is a peaceful all-volunteer group that welcomes all individuals who wish to help restore integrity to Michigan’s elections.
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USPS District Mgr Confirms…MI SOS Jocelyn Benson LIED…Claims It’s “Normal” and “Legal Activity” For Postal Workers to Drop Stacks of Absentee Ballots Into Drop Boxes [VIDEO]
100 Percent Fed Up exclusive– On June 13, The Gateway Pundit and 100 Percent Fed Up released Detroit drop box surveillance footage showing a US Postal worker wearing credentials around his neck and wearing what appears to be blue jeans, exiting an official US Post Office vehicle with a large stack of ballots. The ballots were deposited on October 26, 2020, SIX days before the general election.
As he leaves the US Postal vehicle, the passenger heads to the absentee ballot drop box, where he drops multiple ballots into the drop box while discreetly using his cell phone to take photos or a video of his activity. He’s holding the cell phone in his hand in the screenshot below.
The incident occurred at a drop box in front of the Liberty Temple Baptist Church at 1300 E. Seven Mile in Detroit. There is a US Post Office located only two miles away from the drop box used by the passenger of the US Postal vehicle.
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Shortly after we released the video from October 26, we shared another video that was taken on November 2, 2020, showing a female US postal worker making multiple trips to an absentee ballot drop box. During a podcast with True the Vote’s Catherine Engelbrecht and Gregg Phillips, Jim Hoft of the Gateway Pundit and Patty McMurray of 100 Percent Fed Up explained how one US Postal worker could be seen making THREE trips* in ONE day to the same drop box and depositing multiple ballots each time. (*In the video, Jim Hoft inadvertently said the postal worker made four trips).
On her second trip to the absentee ballot drop box at the Liberty Temple Baptist Church, the female US Postal worker can be seen walking around the back of her official US Post Office vehicle. As she gets closer to the drop boxes, which are monitored by surveillance cameras, she can be seen pulling up her face mask. Does she suddenly pull up her face mask to prevent the spread of COVID while standing by herself at the drop box, or is she more concerned about being identified on the footage? On her fourth visit to the same drop box on the same day, the postal worker arrives with a stack of ballots that she deposits into the drop box, but this time, she’s driving a white SUV with no official US Postal markings while still wearing her US Postal worker uniform.
After Gateway Pundit and 100 Percent Fed Up released the videos showing the totally not “NORMAL” activity of the US Postal workers, Michigan’s dishonest and Soros-funded Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson added a special tab labeled “Misinformation” on her taxpayer-funded government website to dispute our report that exposes voter fraud via the Detroit US Post Office under her watch as MI Secretary of State.
On the taxpayer-funded MI SOS website, Democrat SOS Jocelyn Benson has dedicated a specific section to “misinformation.” She addresses absentee ballot drop boxes in a sub-category on her “Misinformation” page. The Soros-funded SoS makes several excuses about the people captured on dropbox surveillance videos that appear to be committing voter fraud to make it appear as though they are likely not doing anything wrong.
Before going through each excuse for the actions of the people caught on video, Benson states:
All videos suggesting drop boxes were used to commit election fraud in Michigan have been debunked for lack of evidence and understanding of Michigan election law.
How can they be “debunked” if there were never any investigations by Michigan’s SoS or AG?
We decided to do the work SoS Jocelyn Benson and AG Dana Nessel refused to do after a whistleblower who worked for the post office for several decades reached out to us to explain how there are NO circumstances where dropping off ballots at the drop boxes would be acceptable according to the stringent guidelines the US Postal Service has for delivering ballots. Once we received internal documents proving the strict protocols put in place for delivering ballots, we reached out to USPS District Manager Rick Moreton of the MI 1 District, who oversees the Detroit area where this alleged illegal activity took place. Mr. Moreton confirmed during a phone call on Friday that US Postal workers are ONLY allowed to deliver mail to the address on the front of the envelope and that they are NOT allowed to drop absentee ballots into ballot drop boxes. “They are only allowed to deliver ballots to “the specified address on the piece of mail,” he explained.
When asked if it’s standard procedure for postal workers to take pictures or photos of the mail they’re dropping into a mailbox or drop box, he answered, “No.”
I asked Mr. Moreton if the US Postal workers seen in the videos were ever investigated for their actions and if the US Post Office would like us to provide our footage or the numbers of the US Post Office vehicles; he responded, “It was well over a year ago this was brought to our attention, and the postmaster of Detroit was the one who handled—it was his employees. And he handled it, and he took the appropriate corrective measures with those employees.” He added that he couldn’t “share” what actions he took but added, “I don’t know for sure what action he took on them, but there’s some type of corrective action he took on them.”
If Jocelyn Benson was telling the truth and the postal workers depositing absentee ballots into a drop box is “normal and legal activity,” why would the two postal workers seen in the videos be investigated, and why would “corrective measures” be necessary?
When asked if postal workers are violating the specific protocol set forth by the US Post Office for delivering absentee ballots, Moreton said, “Our preference is to directly hand them to the BOE, or Board of Elections mailbox.” When I asked what would be the alternative to handing it directly to an election official at the BOE, Rick Moreton said they would “deliver it to their mailbox.” When I asked why a postal worker would be dropping off ballots at the ballot drop boxes, he responded, “Yeah, they should not be doing that unless there’s a forwarding order on file or they have some sort of a court order.” He added, “But I’ve never heard of that.” When pressed about the statement on Jocelyn Benson’s website, saying that it’s “normal and legal activity” for a postal worker to drop the ballots into a drop box to expedite the delivery of ballots, he clarified, “We’re delivering it to the address on the mail piece.”
So, there it is…despite MI SOS Jocelyn Benson’s “misinformation” statement that says that a US Postal worker depositing stacks of absentee ballots into an absentee ballot drop box that’s supposed to be used by VOTERS is “normal” and “legal activity.”
“I think the biggest concern is that people are worried that postal workers are picking up mail at vacant homes, filling out the ballots, and being paid. And that was the concern when we saw the phones coming out. And these postal workers are clearly either taking photos or videos of themselves putting these ballots into the dropbox—which is also a big concern,” I told Mr. Moreton, to which he agreed, saying, “yes.” I continued, “I mean, for privacy purposes, I don’t think people want to have their mail being videotaped or photographed by a postal worker dropping it off at a location,” to which Mr. Moreton responded, “No, I understand.” We concluded our call with a promise from Mr. Moreton that he would get back to me on Monday when he hoped to be able to tell me the disciplinary action that was taken against the US Postal workers seen in the videos.
MI SOS Benson and her good friend, Michigan’s lawless AG Dana Nessel, ignored the evidence we presented in the videos. Instead of investigating their behavior, MI SOS Benson created a “misinformation” tab in an attempt to discredit the publications and candidates like her GOP opponent for SOS in MI, Kristina Karamo, who has shared the videos on social media and at various events, and asked why SOS Jocelyn Benson and AG Nessel refuse to investigate the people in these videos.
Benson’s opponent in the upcoming election on Tuesday, GOP candidate Kristina Karamo exposed the videos of the drop box activity Benson is defending as part of a series of videos called #BensonsDirtyDeeds.
In her video, Kristina Karamo addresses how Benson ignored our videos and promises to be the kind of Secretary of State who investigates voter fraud claims from citizens instead of defending them.
MI SOS Jocelyn Benson Loses ANOTHER Court Case!… Judge Rules Benson Doesn’t Have Authority To Have Poll Challengers Removed For Asking Too Many Questions… and MORE!
100 Percent Fed Up reports – On Oct 10, we reported about five individuals in Michigan who sued in MI Michigan’s dishonest Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, and MI Director of Elections Jonathan Brater over their sudden creation of a new set of rules titled “The Appointments, Rights, and Duties of Poll Challengers and Election Workers,” only months before Michigan’s August 2, 2022, Primary Election.
The lawsuit, which was filed by Attorney Ann Howard in the MI Court of Claims, was joined together with a similar lawsuit filed by the RNC. The suit asked for an emergency injunction to compel MI SOS Jocelyn Benson and Jonathan Brater to rescind the changes to their newly created “guidance” for poll challengers that was first implemented in the August 2022 Primary Election.
On the day of the Primary Election in Detroit, under the new guidance of MI Soros-funded SOS Jocelyn Benson Jonathan Brater, an unknown third-party security group by the name of “ICU,” threw Braden Giacobazzi, an Independent poll challenger out of the former TCF Center (now the Huntington Place) for asking too many (legitimate) questions about ballots and the processes that he claims were not being followed. Braden’s story can be found here.
The video taken by 100 Percent Fed Up at the time of the incident shows the very respectful interaction between the Detroit Police Officer, and Braden Giacobazzi, who actually cites election law and explains how the ICU agents, hired by the Detroit City Clerk’s office were violating election law when they threw him out of the counting facility.
The new set of rules by Jocelyn Benson, the Soros-funded MI Democrat SOS, essentially ties the hands of poll challengers who have a constitutional right to examine the absentee ballot counting process. It is just one more example of how Benson consistently pushes the envelope and goes outside of the bounds of her job description by restricting members of the Republican Party, who she treats like an enemy, from overseeing the absentee ballot counting process.
Last week, MI Court of Claims Judge Brock Swartzle accepted the request of two out-of-state lawyers from Marc Elias’ Law Firm lawyers who asked to join the suit on behalf of the Defendants Jocelyn Benson and Jonathan Brater. It’s curious why Hillary Clinton’s favorite lawyer felt obligated to get involved in a lawsuit in Michigan that essentially tied the hands of election poll challengers and prevented them from having a direct conversation or filing an objection with election officials at the counting board where they’re observing.
Today, Judge Swarzle offered his opinion. In his opinion, the MI Court of Claims judge wrote that MI SOS Benson and Jonathan Brater “have authority to issue instructional guidance, but they do not have the authority to issue rules with the force and effect of law, apart from those promulgated through notice-and-comment rulemaking. To the extent that defendants have issued an unpromulgated rule in the guise of an “instruction,” they have exceeded their lawful authority under the Michigan Election Law and APA.”
Judge Swartzle reminded Benson of her job description as it relates to MI Election Law in his ruling:
MCL 168.31(1)(c) adds that the Secretary of State shall [p]ublish and furnish for the use in each election precinct before each state primary and election a manual of instructions that includes specific instructions on assisting voters in casting their ballots,directions on the location of voting stations in polling places,procedures and forms for processing challenges, and procedures on prohibiting campaigning in the polling places as prescribed in this act.
Michigan SOS Jocelyn Benson was also found to overstep her authority in several ways. Here is a list of five decisions Judge Swarzle made in favor of the Plaintiffs:
#1: MI SOS Jocelyn Benson cannot prevent poll challengers from bringing their cell phones into a room where absentee ballots are being counted
The Court is cognizant of, and frankly shares, defendants’ concerns about the security of absentee-ballot counting. But there is nothing in the Michigan Election Law that precludes a challenger from merely possessing an electronic device in the AVCB facility. Nor have defendants promulgated a rule through public notice-and-comment rulemaking that might have given them the lawful authority to impose such a ban. Prohibiting electronic devices in the AVCB facility might be a good idea, but before a good idea can become law or have legal force and effect, that idea must be embodied within an enacted statute or promulgated rule.
#2. Election workers, by law, must permit and record ANY and ALL objections made by poll challengers related to absentee ballots.
#3. Election poll challengers cannot be told they are unable to address concerns directly with election inspectors or be told they must make challenges or objections related to ballots or the processing of ballots with Jocelyn Benson’s made-up “Challenger Liaisons”
From the May 2022 Manual:
“Challengers must not communicate with election inspectors other than the challenger liaison or the challenger liaison’s designee unless otherwise instructed by the challenger liaison or a member of the clerk’s staff.”
The manual adds:
“Challengers must not communicate with election inspectors who are not the challenger liaison unless otherwise instructed by the challenger liaison or a member of the clerk’s staff.”
If the challenger violates these provisions, the challenger is subject to a warning, and repeated violations may lead to ejection of the challenger.
Plaintiffs argue that the manual’s limitation on which inspectors the challengers may interact with violates MCL 168.733(1)(e), which provides that a challenger may bring certain issues to “an election inspector’s attention” without restriction to a particular inspector. The authority to designate a “challenger liaison” is absent from the Michigan Election Law–in fact, the very label appears nowhere in statute.
Defendants have not presented this Court with any statute, common law, case law, or promulgated rule that gives them the authority to restrict with which election inspector a challenger can communicate.
The judge appeared to admonish Benson over her made-up role of “challenger liaison”:
Our Legislature provided a challenger the right to communicate to “an” election inspector, and defendants cannot artificially restrict that to a designated inspector. Whether it makes sense to have such a liaison is one thing; it is another thing entirely to require, at the risk of being ejected, a challenger to speak to only the designated liaison.
This provision of the May 2022 Manual goes well beyond what is provided in law and impermissibly restricts a challenger’s ability to bring certain issues to any inspector’s attention.
Accordingly, the manual must be revised to make clear that a challenger need not bring an issue to the attention of only a liaison challenger, but instead can bring such issue to the attention of any election inspector at the applicable location.
#4. Benson does not have the authority, through her new guidance, to have poll challengers thrown out of the counting facility for asking too many questions.
#5. Election poll challengers can be credentialed on Election Day and are not required to fill out a special form created by the SOS office.
The judge explains:
Our Legislature has set forth the exhaustive list of evidence for validating a credential, and if a purported credential includes the three items in MCL 168.732, then that purported credential fully complies with the Michigan Election Law–nothing more is required.
Judge Swarzle ruled that Benson and Brater’s new “guidance” for poll challengers is simply a list of suggestions and that she has no legal authority to change election law or the rules set forth by the MI legislature regarding poll challengers.
Cyber Ninjas Are Also Part of Team Refuting Secretary of State Benson’s Letter Claiming ‘Operator Error’ in Election Results in Antrim County, Michigan
by Joe Hoft
