Posted on 08/26/2022 5:38:32 PM PDT by FreedomPoster
In a win for election integrity advocates, the United States Western District Court of Michigan denied Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson’s attempt at dismissing Public Interest Legal Foundation’s (PILF) lawsuit pertaining to the failure to remove dead registrants from the state’s voter rolls. The court also dismissed motions to intervene from leftist groups, such as the A. Philip Randolph Institute, the Michigan Alliance for Retired Americans, and Rise, Inc.
In 2020, PILF had notified the Secretary of State’s office about dead registrants remaining on Michigan’s voter rolls, but Benson did nothing about it. In November 2021, the nonprofit filed a lawsuit against Benson for her failure to remove 25,975 deceased registrants from voter lists.
According to PILF’s own analysis of the 25,975 deceased registrants:
o 23,663 registrants have been dead for five years or more
o 17,479 registrants have been dead for at least a decade
o 3,956 registrants have been dead for at least 20 years
PILF’s lawsuit contends that by refusing to clean Michigan’s voter rolls, Benson violated Section 8 of the National Voter Registration Act of 1993, which requires officials to “conduct a general program that makes a reasonable effort to remove the names of ineligible voters from the official lists of eligible voters.”
Michigan is also a member of ERIC, a voter-roll maintenance organization that ostensibly cleans state voter rolls — meaning the deceased registrants should have been removed long ago.
“We should not have to sue Secretary of State Benson to get her to do her job,” PILF spokeswoman Lauren Bowman told The Federalist.
This isn’t the first time Benson’s been criticized for her job performance. Back in June 2020, the Michigan Freedom Fund sued Benson and 16 other county clerks for neglecting to maintain accurate voter records. Benson is also known for inflating Michigan’s voter rolls: in September 2020, she sent out automatic voter registration forms to all eligible citizens. As a result of the mailer, 114,000 people were added to Michigan’s voter rolls.
“It is astonishing that Secretary Benson is so vigorously opposing effective list maintenance,” PILF President Christian Adams said in a press release regarding the lawsuit. “It’s remarkable that after sharing this data with the Secretary of State in 2020, dead registrants remained on the state’s voter rolls. This initial win is the first step to ensuring that deceased registrants are not receiving ballots and reducing the opportunity for fraud in Michigan’s elections.”
Last year, the Foundation won a similar lawsuit against Pennsylvania, which compelled the Commonwealth to remove at least 21,000 dead registrants from its voter rolls.
Soros payroll?
If his judge payed for an education he needs to get his money back...
Lol, Well you can’t discriminate against dead folks who identify as live folks...
Other than providing a sneaky path for fraud, what possible excuse is there for leaving the dead on the voter rolls?
Probably. In the past she worked for the southern progressive lawyers coalition.
Why is that?
The dead are dedicated American citizens and can be relied upon to do their duty by voting at every election.
So I guess in your will you need to instruct your estate attorney to remove you from the voter roll. Otherwise you’ll find yourself voting for Democrats.
It’s a no brainer... They are DEAD... Anyone who is not intelligent enough to understand that concept, in that position, is an educated idiot.
I am hoping you are intelligent enough to not agree with this judge about what defines one as DEAD??? Why would anyone in their right mind argue against this logical action?
I’m not familiar with them, but it does sound like a group
that would fit right into this situation.
She...
Joke
Man said his parents voted dim and swore he would never visit their graves again
Well wish it was a joke sadly more true than not, I listen to Shapiro but get so tired of his Trump lost… and 2000 mules didn’t show any proof well what about the folks with their elderly parent who couldn’t vote but did
Well, the group is often referred to by its abbreviation: SPLC.
(Or maybe you were being sarcastic. :)
(Maybe all those dead people identify as being alive...that fits today’s thinking)
Dude..
The judge ruled against the secretary of state, in other words, the lawsuit continues.
Perhaps you just misread it...
Know what? I sure did read it wrong and stand corrected... Man... The old brain is starting to glitch...
No not at all. I am not familiar with that group.
There’s a lot of stuff out there, and some of it slips by.
Thank you for stating the obvious. There is no lawful excuse for filing a challenge to removing dead people from the voting rolls. You would only do so to keep forever cheating in elections by voting on behalf of the dead.
This is further proof the Left cannot win elections without cheating.
The Leftists don’t even try to make sense anymore. Their dead need to vote no matter what.
No other reason/excuse. Dead guys are cheating tools.
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