Michigan Democrats, including the highly partisan Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, suffered stunning losses in the November 5, 2024 election.
No matter how hard the corporate media tries, it’s impossible to deny the overwhelming popularity of President Trump in the formerly blue state, where, for the past 8 years, citizens, including union workers, have lined up for days in advance of Trump’s rallies across the state to show their support for him. Many believe Michigan has been a red state since 2016, which made Joe Biden’s ‘win’ in 2020 highly perplexing to anyone who witnessed the palpable momentum for President Trump as he crisscrossed the Great Lakes state, while Joe Biden remained firmly planted in his COVID-free basement in Delaware. The only November 2024 election result that left voters in Michigan scratching their heads was the .3% victory by the soon-to-be US Senator and former CIA Analyst, Democrat Rep. Elissa Slotkin, over her Republican opponent Mike Rogers. Despite President Trump’s historic victory and Republican victories across the state that helped them regain control of the State House, the unpopular Slotkin somehow managed to pull out a win after several days of counting after the November 5 election.
This time around, Trump was declared the winner in the state of Michigan. So, shouldn’t all those pesky individuals working on election integrity be satisfied and go away? Should they simply accept that Joe Biden was the most popular presidential candidate in American history and agree to forget about the multiple lawsuits that found Michigan’s top election official in violation of the law leading up to the 2020 election or the shocking discoveries that proved Michigan’s elections were anything but free or fair?
What about the USPS workers who were caught on surveillance video delivering stacks of ballots in a Detroit drop box in October 2020, in violation of the USPS rules, that MI SOS Jocelyn Benson calls “normal and legal activity” on the MI SOS website, under her “disinformation” tab?
What about the Michigan State Police report that an election integrity expert gave exclusively to the Gateway Pundit that revealed a statewide fraudulent voter registration fraud scheme by GBI Strategies, where, despite a videotaped admission by an investigator working for the MI Attorney General Dana Nessel’s office that “Crimes were committed,” not a single person was charged?
Should the 19 voters registered at a fake address in Michigan, eight of whom voted in the 2020 and 2022 elections, be ignored? Should Michigan voters accept 320,000 identified “ghost voters” found on the voter rolls in Michigan in 2024?
And what about the “Over 48,000 NON-LEGAL Voter Registrations at Trailer Parks and Apartment Housing Addresses” discovered by election integrity experts in Michigan, or their discovery of over 125K duplicate ballots reportedly cast by the same voter IDs in the August 2024 primary election, that the MI SOS office called a “glitch?”
Only weeks before the election, MI SOS Jocelyn Benson was sued by the RNC and MIGOP for not following the Constitution and requiring tens of thousands of overseas (UOCAVA non-military) voters to provide proof of Michigan residency.
And finally, what about the lawsuit by the RNC filed just before the November election, accusing SOS Jocelyn Benson and MI BOE Director Jonathan Brater of having more active registered voters in the state of Michigan than active voters?
Election Integrity Heroes Continue The Fight For Transparent and Honest Elections in Michigan Despite Obstacles Being Placed In Their Way By MI SOS and BOE
Despite multiple obstacles that have been placed in their way, election integrity groups like Check My Vote, Michigan Fair Elections, and Michigan Election Integrity Force, as well as individuals like former Senator Patrick Colbeck and Tim Vetter, continue to fight for election transparency.
Every month since the 2020 election, Michigan’s Check My Vote Founder Phani Mantravadi and Data Analyst Tim Vetter have FOIA’d Michigan’s QVF (Qualified Voter Files). However, on December 1, 2024, they were stunned to discover that the data they received from Jocelyn Benson (America’s most non-transparent Secretary of State) from the November 2024 general election was missing a key component—the voter history.
Phani Mantravadi immediately sent a FOIA request to the MI BOE (Board of Elections) to ask why the data they’ve received each month for the past 4 years was missing. The response from the BOE FOIA Director Sherri Hines to Mantravadi was that they were unable to provide him with the typical QVF, which includes the voter history for the November 5, 2024 election, stating that the voter history not available (almost one whole month after the election), because “the information is still being uploaded by the clerks.”
According to Check My Vote founder Phani Mantravadi, clerks are required to upload the information from the election within 7 days, according to MCL 168.813, which clearly states:
Within 7 days after an election, the city or township clerk shall ensure that the qualified voter file is current and includes any individual who registered to vote under section 497(3) and (4).
Instead of waiting around for Michigan’s partisan Secretary of State to provide them with the data they are entitled to have access to, Tim Vetter decided to request every county clerk in Michigan provide him with a “List of Voters” from their prospective counties for the November 5, 2024 election. In his email to the clerks and deputy clerks, Vetter explains that he is asking for this information because the BOE FOIA coordinator has informed them that voter history from the November general election “is still being uploaded by the clerks.”
To date, Mr. Vetter has received 24 responses from 83 Michigan clerks and deputy clerks. Vetter told us that so far, he’s received responses from 67 of 83 counties in Michigan and that he’s “happy with the wonderful overall support by nearly all county clerks.” He told us he would continue to make personal phone calls to follow up with the remaining 16 county clerks he had yet to contact via email. “4 of the 83 counties have denied our FOIA requests,” Vetter said, adding, “Those counties are Benzie, Crawford, Hillsdale, and Iosco. Emmet County offered them “a very unreasonable fee of $854.16.” Vetter says they “plan to appeal this cost with Emmet County.” Some clerks, like Jamie McClain of Crawford County, MI, responded to Vetter’s request by telling him that the SOS “has not yet released security for these records. Once they are, I will release them.”
What security does the SOS have to release?
The chart below helps to explain why it’s important for citizens to have access to voter data from the MI BOE post-election. None of the 11 MI counties below are reporting the same number of ballots on the SOS website compared to the SOVC (Statement of Vote Count) or the number of ballots provided by the COUNTY clerks. How can an election be certified if the number of ballots cast in 11 of 83 counties are not in balance with the MI SOS and County data?
The Gateway Pundit met with election integrity experts Tim Vetter and Phani Mantravadi to discuss the importance of receiving accurate and timely information from the MI Secretary of State and Board of Elections following an important general election.
During our interview with Phani Mantravadi, he explained his disturbing discovery when he received the voter data from the November 5, 2024 election.
“As you probably know, as many people know, we have a standing—what’s called a subscription to the voter file snapshot that we get on a monthly basis. So, from January 2024 onwards, I’ve been getting a file every month on the first week of every month. Same thing in 2023. I put in a request typically in December for the whole year, and it comes every month. And what we see in the file is very simple. We see a list of voters that are registered to vote in whichever county, what address they’re registered to, etc. But there’s also another file that indicates—because one of the MCLs, 168.509Q, basically says the Secretary of State is supposed to maintain the history of whether a person voted or not—not who they voted for, etc.—but that information is supposed to be in the file.”
Mantravadi continued to explain, “If you’re getting a file in the first week of December, that is supposed to include whether an individual voted or not in the November 5th election. And it’s been the case since—for four years at least that I’ve been looking at this stuff, it’s been the case. But this time around, all history—voting history pertaining to the November 5th, 2024 election was missing. I was surprised to see that because this–—it’s never happened—in my experience anyway. I’ve been only in this for four years, but anybody else that I spoke to who has been in this much longer, this is unprecedented.”
I asked Tim Vetter, “Okay. In other words, Jocelyn Benson or her FOIA director was basically, in her response, telling you that the county clerks were in violation of the law because they hadn’t uploaded that information. Is that correct? Is that how you read that?”
Tim Vetter responded to my question: “That’s exactly how I read it, to which I would say, how do you certify an election if you don’t have the data to support the vote counts? So we investigated that.”
Watch:
On Wednesday, Jocelyn Benson hilariously tweeted about the need to “act” to “make government more transparent for everyone.”
In her tweet, Benson included a link to an article she wrote that was published by her dear friends at the Gannett-owned Detroit News. Here’s an excerpt from the article America’s Least Transparent and most dishonest Secretary of State wrote about the need for the Lame Duck Democrat-led legislature to pass the BRITE Act, which would demand more transparency from elected officials. “The Legislature also must take this opportunity to strengthen the state’s Freedom of Information Act,” Benson wrote.
The former far-left (hate group) Southern Poverty Law Center board member wrote, “The people of Michigan deserve a government that works for them. But for decades, dark clouds of corruption have been able to thrive in the shadows, emboldened by our state’s weak ethics and transparency laws. It’s time to turn the page on this era of unaccountability. The Legislature must pass substantial ethics reforms before they adjourn this year.”
The woman who completely destroyed transparency in Michigan’s elections and was successfully sued 10 times over actions she’s taken to make elections easier to steal ignores her own grotesque lack of transparency and brags about the unbelievable increase in the number of registered voters in Michigan. The truth is many of the voters on Michigan’s voter rolls are dead, falsely registered, duplicate voters, living in states other than Michigan, or living at addresses that don’t even exist in the state. “More than 5.7 million Michiganians turned out to make their voices heard in the 2024 General Election — the third consecutive statewide election with record-breaking turnout. It’s clear that the citizens of Michigan are engaged; now they need to be informed,” Benson wrote.
Jocelyn Benson, one of the least trusted secretaries of state in America, who frequently mocks and gaslights her political opponents, wrote: “Increased transparency is essential to ensure our state government works for the people. In the last two years, we’ve made some progress, but there is still more to be done to make public officials and employees accountable to those who have entrusted us to serve.”
Yes, let’s make government more transparent. Let’s start with your office. Can you explain why former MI Senator Patrick Colbeck is being asked to pay over $5K for email communications regarding the so-called “glitch” re: the same voter ID being used to cast multiple votes in the… pic.twitter.com/gm9dHy88Ae
— PattyMI (@PattyLovesTruth) December 11, 2024
Phani Mantravadi has created an easy-to-understand transparency tracker for each county in Michigan, along with a scorecard with voter integrity ratings. Michigan residents can find their county’s transparency ratings HERE under the “Tools” tab on the “Check My Vote” website, along with a breakdown of scores for each precinct.
As Check My Vote continues its critically important work, please remember that their continued efforts to expose irregularities or fraud on Michigan’s voter rolls depend on donations from everyday citizens and groups who support their efforts. Contributions are accepted on their website HERE.
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