Posted on 03/13/2024 5:24:25 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
The Republican National Committee (RNC) filed a lawsuit Wednesday against Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, alleging the state’s voter rolls are inflated with ineligible voters.
The suit claims that 53 of the state’s 83 counties have more registered voters than they do residents who are eligible to vote. Twenty-three other counties also allegedly have “suspiciously high” voter registration rates of 90 percent or more, which does not comport with the nationwide voter registration rate, according to the suit.
The RNC sent a letter to Benson in December notifying the state of “78 Michigan counties that are in violation of section 8 and formally requesting that they correct the violations within 90 days,” the lawsuit notes.
Section 8 of the National Voter Registration Act (NVRA) requires states to maintain accurate voter registration rolls and to have a program in place that works to remove ineligible voters from the rolls in the instance of death or an address change.
Benson failed to clean the state’s voter rolls, according to the RNC, which alleges that “retaining voter rolls bloated with ineligible voters harms the electoral process, heightens the risk of electoral fraud, and undermines public confidence in elections.”
“Several Michigan counties have inactive registration rates of 15% or greater, well above the state and national averages,” the suit reads. “Having a high percentage of inactive registrations is an indication that a state or jurisdiction is not removing inactive registrations after two general federal elections.”
The Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF) lodged a similar suit in 2021 that was recently tossed out after the court ruled the state was removing dead voters from its rolls and therefore was not in violation of the NVRA.
PILF filed the suit after Benson allegedly failed to remove roughly 26,000 dead voters from the rolls in 2020. PILF purchased voter roll data from the state and hired an analytics team to compare the voters’ names to social security records and other documents, a PILF spokeswoman told The Federalist last year.
One of the voters still on the state’s list at the time the suit was filed was Pauline Schmainda, who was born in 1908 and died in 1990. Her obituary was posted in the Detroit Free Press.
But U.S. District Court Judge Jane Beckering of the Western District of Michigan dismissed the PILF suit, claiming “the record demonstrates that deceased voters are removed from Michigan’s voter rolls on a regular and ongoing basis.”
Beckering ruled the state has made a “reasonable effort” to keep the rolls clean despite contrary claims from PILF attorneys, who said the thousands of dead registrants are proof the state isn’t doing enough.
Yep, how does the likes of kim taine keep getting elected to the US Senate in Virginia along with his voting partner mock warna?
If the RNC is serious they better watch all voter locations from start to stop this November. The Steal is everywhere.
This is where you have it WRONG. I'm sick of playing nice with the evil left. We need to cheat 10 times worse than them. I hope we can cheat enough that Trump wins 940 million to bidens 88 million this NOV.
Oh look. A dude looking feminist commie
Lemme guess...these counties would include Detroit and other large Michigan cities!
Yup...and so far there’s not a court in the nation that’s been willing to do anything about it.
So, was an appeal filed? If not, why not? Why do the Dems have the $$ to follow through on multiple, years-long suits? How is "regular and ongoing basis" defined?
The Left think they own the fedgov and it's their personal playground to make up and discard rules as befits them.
If Ronna was still in charge, this would never have been exposed in th first place.
It's amusing to watch people on TV talk about the polls in the swing states, where Trump is ahead by so many points over Biden. As if the Democrats aren't going to win by cheating again like they did in 2020. They didn't suffer any consequences for what they did in 2020 and they have too much riding on keeping Trump (or any Republican) out of the White House.
“If the RNC is serious they better watch all voter locations from start to stop this November. The Steal is everywhere.”
Yes, with millions of Patriot poll watchers
Look at this! Fatty wasnt out a WEEK and this is exactly what she should have been doing all along!
Are there really that many counties in Michigan?
“So Republicans are finally starting to pay attention. Why are so many Repubs stupid? They should have been on this a long time ago.”
The new RNC leadership (who took over just last week) have immediately started challenging the voter rolls in a corrupt state. It could have been, and should have been, done years ago but Ronna Romney was a snake in the grass working on behalf of the never-Trumper GOP.
Trump was foolish to endorse her and it is obvious he also has a “snake in the grass” in his close circle who is giving him bad advice. He needs to root them out and kick whoever it is to the curb.
Remember there was some sort of bs agreement of judgment that the Republicans couldn’t challenge votes and elections for like 30 years or something. Well I believe that expired.
Sort of like she does in Detroit.
It's a state run by incompetent lefties who excel at one thing. Vote theft.
They also took over both parties so they can never lose. If Trump wins nationally he may do some damage to the Witchmer party in Michigan.
“Why are so many Repubs stupid?“
Republicans are paid very handsomely to remain stupid.
Spot on
I have a feeling that with the new leadership at the RNC, the RNC will start doing many things that should have been done decades ago.
I have a feeling that with the new leadership at the RNC, the RNC will start doing many things that should have been done decades ago.
Dead people, clones, illegals, pets, farm animals...
Whatever it takes so that people can run around saying, “See? No fraud here!”
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