Posted on 03/17/2021 8:41:13 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
A judge has ruled that Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson violated state law last year when she issued “guidance” on how absentee ballots should be evaluated.
State Court of Claims Judge Christopher Murray ruled last week that Benson, a Democrat, did not follow the proper rule-making process when instructing voting clerks in October to presume the accuracy of absentee ballot signatures, and the guidance is now invalid, according to the Detroit News.
"The presumption is found nowhere in state law," Murray, a Republican-appointed judge, wrote in the ruling. "The mandatory presumption goes beyond the realm of mere advice and direction, and instead is a substantive directive that adds to the pertinent signature-matching standards."
Murray wrote that Benson issued the rules without following the process for creating a rule under state and federal law, thus violating the state’s Administrative Procedures Act.
Murray contends that the rule stated only signatures with “multiple significant and obvious” inconsistencies should be questioned, which he argued fell within the definition of an administrative rule that required a multiple-step process that was not undertaken last year.
“An agency must utilize formal rulemaking procedures when establishing policies that ‘do not merely interpret or explain the statute or rules from which the agency derives its authority,’ but rather ‘establish the substantive standards implementing the program,’” Murray wrote.
Michigan is one of six states where former President Donald Trump and his surrogates have alleged widespread voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election, potentially costing him a victory, and Republicans have argued that Article II of the Constitution requires election rules to be decided by state legislatures and not elected officials.
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It’s all Kabuki theater at this point. Damage done. This doesn’t end like some Hollywood movie. The good guy doesn’t always win. The nerd doesn’t always get the prom queen. Real life is a cruel bitch.
Day late and dollar short.
It didn’t take a judge this long to tell us that.
Thanks for the help, legal remedies.
When is the execution date?
Waiting.....
So, when is the trial?
And what is the potential sentence?
The wrong place was “attacked” Jan 6.
So cross your fingers behind your back and swear you wont do it again
I’m still waiting for Durham’s report!
Gonna be a while, better pack a few year’s worth of MRE’s.
It takes a while sometimes to grind through the system.
What happened in 2020 is absolutely ground-breakingly unbelievable.
It was a Cloward-Pivens election and curiously resistant to disclosure because all the dems and their media toadies are sticking together.
I happen to think it is also too big to stand for long. It will be interesting to see how long the huge farce will last.
“ Gonna be a while, better pack a few year’s worth of MRE’s.”
Meals Rejected by Ethiopians?
The good guy doesn’t always win.
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The system see’s to that.
The problem is that this was allowed to happen in the first place.
indeed—there was a protest in front of Jocelyn’s house one evening it should have happened again.
these criminal and Satanic Marxists that have been placed in power by soros deserve the full wrath of We The People
When will Election law violator Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson be tried, convicted, and sentenced to becoming a one-time rope tester??
So she’s going to prison when?
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