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This Isn't Suspicious: MI SOS Requires Deletion of Election Records One Week After Certification
Hot Air ^ | 13 Aug, 2026 | David Strom

Posted on 08/14/2026 9:31:41 AM PDT by MtnClimber

Federal law requires the retention of voting records for 22 months after an election.

Democrats don't like that. They believe in keeping things tidy by deleting all the evidence ASAP. With BleachBit, if possible. (Anthony Fauci, call your office.)

And there is no set of records they want cleaned up and tidy quite like election records; otherwise, you face the need to fight like hell in court to keep them locked away, as Fulton County did for years until the FBI got a warrant and seized them. And even after that, Fulton County has fought to keep them sealed.

Nothing to see here, so why look? And, better yet, delete the evidence as soon as possible. Audits are a distraction, you know.

PICK A CRIME: That's the choice Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson handed my client, a township clerk.

A new state rule Benson made orders my client to DELETE the electronic poll book records of the August 4 primary within 7 days of certification. What’s the problem? Federal law orders her to KEEP those same records for 22 months, into 2028.

Delete them? Face up to 1 year of imprisonment under federal law. Refuse? Up to 90 days imprisonment under Michigan law. Every path carries a penalty aimed at my client personally. For trying to follow the law.

My client wrote Jocelyn Benson and the Director of Elections on July 6 and asked one question: how do I obey both? Thirty-seven days. NO ANSWER.

So we asked a judge, while the records still exist. No more waiting around. Declare which law controls. Preserve the voting records.

And the part that should get your attention: the same rule governs the NOVEMBER election.

Read all 156 pages, complaint and exhibits, yourself: http://tinyurl.com/pollbookcase

The one-page fact sheet: http://tinyurl.com/pollbookcasefactsheet

(Excerpt) Read more at hotair.com ...


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: 1partyrule; democratcorruption; democratfraud; democrattruth; fraudtruth; leftism; votefraud; voterfraud
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1 posted on 08/14/2026 9:31:41 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

Should be evidence in Federal Conspiracy to commit Election Fraud charge against SoS.


2 posted on 08/14/2026 9:32:57 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

Aren’t there federal requirements which prevent this?


3 posted on 08/14/2026 9:35:48 AM PDT by fwdude (Why is there a "far/radical right," but damned if they'll admit that there is a far/radical left)
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To: MtnClimber

That’s insane. They aren’t even finished counting by then.


4 posted on 08/14/2026 9:36:24 AM PDT by fwdude (Why is there a "far/radical right," but damned if they'll admit that there is a far/radical left)
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To: MtnClimber

Sounds legit to me...................🙄


5 posted on 08/14/2026 9:43:49 AM PDT by Red Badger (Iryna Zarutska, May 22, 2002 Kyiv, Ukraine – August 22, 2025 Charlotte, North Carolina Say her name)
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To: MtnClimber

If we declare a National Emergency, federalize the National Guard in each state and have the National Guard administer mid-term elections with strict regard for chain-of-custody and ID checking, then we might possibly have honest elections in the fall.

But if we do it the standard way and try to “vote harder”, then the elections won’t be honest.


6 posted on 08/14/2026 9:46:12 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Enoch Powell warned us about Rivers of Blood. Well, I sure hope they're coming. It's the only fix.)
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To: fwdude

Federal law says records must be retained for 22 months.


7 posted on 08/14/2026 9:46:24 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

Bump


8 posted on 08/14/2026 9:48:18 AM PDT by .30Carbine
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To: MtnClimber

In Our Democracy ©️ we don’t need to count the votes at all.


9 posted on 08/14/2026 9:48:36 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: MtnClimber; All
Thank you for referencing that article MtnClimber.

Federal law requires the retention of voting records for 22 months after an election.


FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument

Section 2 of the 14th Amendment is a penalty for states where voting integrity has been compromised.

In fact, note the zero tolerance "hair triggers" in that section that the Supremes, Pence and the J6 Congress wrongly ignored imo when lawmakers voted to accept Biden's electoral votes in 2020 despite allegations of vote-counting problems.

Given that there is no statute of limitations mentioned in Section 2, the states should arguably be required to preserve voting records indefinitely imo.

10 posted on 08/14/2026 9:50:54 AM PDT by Amendment10
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To: MtnClimber

She’s a Witch, Jim….


11 posted on 08/14/2026 9:56:41 AM PDT by Paladin2 (YMMV)
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To: Amendment10

Your post says something very much more profound.

If that is part of the 14th Amendment.

If they determine (and they don’t say who determines) that voting rights were ‘abridged’ then those states lose their representation (they said adult males greater than 21, but since woman vote and the age is 18 it’s everybody in the state).

No Congresspeople from those states. They get no say in Federal Government. Destroying Federally mandated records is ‘Abridging’ voting rights in Federal Elections. That makes the state ‘Unqualified’ for Representation.


12 posted on 08/14/2026 10:03:20 AM PDT by Pete Dovgan
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To: MtnClimber

Count every vote.


13 posted on 08/14/2026 10:03:30 AM PDT by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: MtnClimber

No invincible ink?


14 posted on 08/14/2026 10:04:04 AM PDT by Raycpa
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To: Libloather

Count every VERIFIED LEGITIMATE vote.


15 posted on 08/14/2026 10:12:18 AM PDT by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Finish the damned WALL! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH! )
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...
One would think that they wouldn't even be done, uh, counting after just one week.

16 posted on 08/14/2026 10:15:47 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (TDS -- it's not just for DNC shills anymore -- oh, wait, yeah it is.)
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To: MtnClimber

Only if a dim wins. If a pub wins the closest scrutiny and for as long as it takes.


17 posted on 08/14/2026 10:25:51 AM PDT by xp38
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To: MtnClimber

If Fed law is gonna be broken then Fed agents need to force their way in and seize the records. Time to go medieval on this shitte.


18 posted on 08/14/2026 10:41:44 AM PDT by bobbo666
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To: bobbo666

I agree, the feds need to seize records with a SWAT raid.


19 posted on 08/14/2026 10:43:36 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

Gee just like communism make you own rules if your in power to do so comrade.


20 posted on 08/14/2026 11:15:09 AM PDT by Vaduz (NEVER TRUST A DEMOCRAT)
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