This Isn't Suspicious: MI SOS Requires Deletion of Election Records One Week After Certification

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

Under federal law, states are required to retain election records for 22 months. This mandate, found in 52 U.S.C. § 20701 (originally Section 301 of the Civil Rights Act of 1960), applies to all records and papers relating to any application, registration, or act requisite to voting in federal elections for President, Vice President, Congress, or Resident Commissioner.

The Resident Commissioner is the non-voting representative of Puerto Rico in the United States House of Representatives, a position unique for its four-year term rather than the standard two-year House cycle. The current incumbent is Pablo José Hernández Rivera, who took office in January 2025 and is the youngest person to hold the post.

The 22-month retention period covers general, special, and primary elections. While some state laws or specific types of records (such as voter registration list maintenance data under the National Voter Registration Act) may have a 2-year requirement, the primary federal statute governing the preservation of ballots and voting records specifies the 22-month timeline. Election officials must retain these records either physically or under their direct administrative supervision.

So, if they refused to abide by the law, it makes sense that who they certified could be lagally removed.

“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.”

Good start.

Let’s not forget prison.

Five years and a day, consecutively, per affected vote and the record of the vote.

Aka

Railroad The Tina Peters’ Law

Her crime ? Trying to preserve the vote record required by federal law

They are still trying to obscure that fact

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/VTU1xiWoRLU

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