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Michigan Secretary of State Issues Order to Delete Election Data Amid Audit Calls
nationalfile.com ^ | December 4, 2020 | Frank Salvato

Posted on 12/05/2020 5:13:23 PM PST by grundle

In a move that implicates her office in efforts to suppress evidence in the face of litigation, Michigan’s Secretary of State moves to erase proof of ballot tampering and vote fraud

It what can only be seen as an effort to keep the facts from coming to light in the face of problematic issues with Michigan’s 2020 General Election process, a memo has been issued from Michigan’s Secretary of State to destroy data.

The Michigan State Republican Party Friday sounded an alarm about an ethically questionable memo authorized by Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson that “is pushing for the mass deletion of election data.”

Michigan Republican Party Chairman Laura Cox in a statement Friday, said that Benson’s office issued orders to clerks in Michigan counties to “delete Electronic Poll Book software and associated files” even as calls to audit the election persist.

Cox was referring to a December 1, 2020, memo from the Michigan Bureau of Elections, an agency overseen by Benson’s office, that read, “[Electronic Poll Book] software and associated files must be deleted from all devices by the seventh calendar day following the final canvass and certification of the election (November 30, 2020) unless a petition for recount has been filed and the recount has not been completed, a post-election audit is planned but has not yet been completed, or the deletion of the data has been stayed by an order of the court or the Secretary of State.”

The order targeted data contained in Electronic Poll Book software and in files contained on laptops and USB drives using during the election.

“Secretary Benson’s move to request the deletion of election data amidst bipartisan calls for an audit is just another example of her putting partisan politics over what’s best for Michigan,” Cox said in the Friday statement.

“With election irregularities rampant across the state,” Cox added, “it is vital that we have this audit before any election data is deleted. Secretary Benson’s move to delete this data before an audit raises a serious question, what are the Democrats hiding?”

This week, witnesses, including a poll worker in Detroit and GOP poll challengers, testified at a Michigan State Legislature hearing into the myriad complaints of vote fraud and ballot tampering throughout the state on Election Day and afterward.

Michigan’s Secretary of State told reporters that there is no evidence of vote fraud, ballot tampering, or irregularities that would overturn the election, despite the mountain of evidence to the contrary.


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KEYWORDS: 1moretime; arrestjocelynbenson; invalidatedmichigan; invalidatedstate; jocelynbenson
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You can read the order at this link:

https://g1nbc.com/howell-mi/files/2020/12/Recount-Release-of-Security-Memo-Nov-2020-General.pdf

1 posted on 12/05/2020 5:13:23 PM PST by grundle
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To: grundle

This invalidated Michigan (among other actions).

Key word invalidated state

Invalidated Michigan


2 posted on 12/05/2020 5:14:32 PM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: grundle

Where is our attorney general in all of this? Prick.


3 posted on 12/05/2020 5:19:49 PM PST by LouAvul (The wheels of America are coming off and the media have stolen the lug nuts.)
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To: grundle

the ‘Ve vere just following orders’ did not work for the Nazis


4 posted on 12/05/2020 5:19:54 PM PST by Lockbox
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To: ifinnegan

You can bet there will be at least one county clerk will be downloading things . just in case.


5 posted on 12/05/2020 5:20:45 PM PST by healy61
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To: grundle

The only reason they’re trying to destroy the ballots is they have something to hide.


6 posted on 12/05/2020 5:20:49 PM PST by Westbrook
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To: grundle; All

I thought the requirement was to keep the election ballots and digital artifacts for 22 months after the election.

What gives?


7 posted on 12/05/2020 5:30:50 PM PST by sauropod (Let them eat kale. I will not comply. Sic semper evello mortem tyrannis.)
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To: grundle

Obstruction of justice.


8 posted on 12/05/2020 5:33:14 PM PST by Brilliant
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To: LouAvul

Blowing bag pipes or munching on a couple beef and cheddars at Arby’s I would guess


9 posted on 12/05/2020 5:34:13 PM PST by Lod881019
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To: sauropod

They are a lying, cheating bunch of Leftists who belong in prison. That is what gives. We did not vote for this crap here.


10 posted on 12/05/2020 5:40:10 PM PST by madison10
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To: grundle

There is only one reason to scrub the USBs.


11 posted on 12/05/2020 5:40:33 PM PST by gov_bean_ counter (Potemkin Joe - Everything about him is fake)
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To: grundle
"Michigan’s Secretary of State told reporters that there is no evidence of vote fraud, ballot tampering, or irregularities that would overturn the election, despite the mountain of evidence to the contrary."

Bwahahahahahahahaha!
12 posted on 12/05/2020 5:51:02 PM PST by Bellagio
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To: grundle

Suppress

She is deliverately destroying evidence to hide criminal fraud in a federal election


13 posted on 12/05/2020 5:51:43 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: grundle

SOS Benson should be criminally charged for tampering with an election..


14 posted on 12/05/2020 6:01:05 PM PST by From The Deer Stand
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Not one patriot with a 1tb SD card? Sheesh.


15 posted on 12/05/2020 6:12:20 PM PST by wiseprince (Me,)
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To: ifinnegan

If so the michigan vote does not count


16 posted on 12/05/2020 6:33:18 PM PST by ronnie raygun ( Massive mistakes are made by arrogant fools; massive evils are committed by evil people.")
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To: grundle

My tagline applies now more than ever


17 posted on 12/05/2020 6:46:00 PM PST by joe fonebone (Communists Need To Be Eliminated)
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To: grundle

United States Code 02 52

USC§20701. Retention and preservation of records and papers by officers of elections; deposit with custodian; penalty for violation
Every officer of election shall retain and preserve, for a period of twenty-two months from the date of any general, special, or primary election of which candidates for the office of President, Vice President, presidential elector, Member of the Senate, Member of the House of Representatives, or Resident Commissioner from the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico are voted for, all records and papers which come into his possession relating to any application, registration, payment of poll tax, or other act requisite to voting in such election, except that, when required by law, such records and papers may be delivered to another officer of election and except that, if a State or the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico designates a custodian to retain and preserve these records and papers at a specified place, then such records and papers may be deposited with such custodian, and the duty to retain and preserve any record or paper so deposited shall devolve upon such custodian. Any officer of election or custodian who willfully fails to comply with this section shall be fined not more than $1,000 or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.

( Pub. L. 86–449, title III, §301, May 6, 1960, 74 Stat. 88 .)

If they obey the Secretary of State they should go to jail.


18 posted on 12/05/2020 6:47:11 PM PST by Don W (When blacks riot, neighbourhoods and cities burn. When whites riot, nations and continents burn.)
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To: sauropod

Who is going to enforce that? Our AG could care less.


19 posted on 12/05/2020 7:14:21 PM PST by LeoTDB69
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To: grundle

Why is she ordering the evidence that proves Biden won destroyed?


20 posted on 12/05/2020 7:22:51 PM PST by FrdmLvr
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