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Posted on 08/17/2026 11:00:02 AM PDT by Red Badger
Michigan activist Robert Davis joined investigative reporter Charlie LeBuff on his “No BS Newshour” podcast that was released on Wednesday.
During their discussion, Davis argued that Jocelyn Benson is ineligible to run for public office in Michigan after she allegedly made false statements on her campaign forms for governor.
Michigan election law can be very strict, preventing candidates who make minor errors in their paperwork from getting on the ballot.
Robert Davis claims Jocelyn Benson was not truthful on her forms and should be removed from the ballots. Davis went further, saying Benson should also lose her current position as Secretary of State as a result of the errors.
Here is a transcription of their discussion on “No BS Newshour.”
Robert Davis:: Jocelyn Benson should not be certified to appear on the November general election ballot as a Democratic nominee because she filed a false affidavit of identity to qualify as a candidate for governor.
Charlie DeDuff: What’d she do?
Robert Davis: On that affidavit, each candidate has to attest to the fact that as of the date that they signed the affidavit, all campaign-related filing fees and fines required of the candidate or required of their candidate committees have been filed or paid.
Well, as of the date in which Jocelyn Benson signed her affidavit of identity for to run for governor, she had outstanding late filing fees that she had not paid, uh, as well as it has been subsequently discovered that her candidate committee that was organized for the Secretary of State run had not paid certain late filing fees as well.
Now, she is the chief elections officer that is supposed to enforce the Michigan election law that requires each candidate to truthfully attest to those statements on the affidavit of identity. And she did not. And so now I filed a—
Charlie DeDuff: What’s the penalty on that?
Robert Davis: The penalty is, is that under the amended Michigan election law, a candidate cannot appear on the ballot as a candidate. They have to be decertified. They cannot be certified by the local county clerk, city clerk, or by the secretary of state. That’s just election law. That’s election law.
Charlie DeDuff: If it’s not only the perjury and maybe that’s a separate— maybe she didn’t know that. That’s separate. Just the fact that your paperwork’s not in order, it’s required by Michigan amended law that you not be certified for the— for to run for the office.
Robert Davis: It is mandatory.
Here is the video clip from the “No BS Hour.”
VIDEO AT LINK..................
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She will slip through the “But She’s A Democrat” loophole in the interpretation of the law.
This will be ignored.
Nice try, but she will be on the ballot and she will win. As the current Secretary of State, her office is in charge of counting the votes in November. Isn’t that convenient?
It’s exactly the same situation as with Arizona in 2022, with Dirty Katie Hobbs (D) moving up from SOS to Governor.
Michigan in 2026 will turn out just like that too, barring divine intervention or something equally unlikely (like the electoral environment somehow NOT remaining D+5 or worse, and getting back to “neutral” or better within the next 79 days or so).
Unless there is a HUGE and I do mean HUGE and FLAGRANT intent, that can be proven, its highly unlikely this would happen...
If its just a paperwork error, then they can refile etc...
Get at least one of these claims by some activists against some candidate, somewhere or another every election cycle and it rarely amounts to much of anything.
It’s Gateway Pundit. Carry on.
Baitway Pundit
Freudian slip?.............
Nothing will happen.
Remember, rules, regulations, laws and statutes are for "others."
Rules are for ‘little people’................
“It’s who counts the votes that matters”
Her office................
My first thought.
Could happen but it’ll be a bear since person who should be doing the disqualification is the one being disqualified.
Needs to be pushed anyway to keep her on the back foot.
The Guv will pardon her, then all will be fine..................
If Chris Swanson does not decide to make a case out of it.
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