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Michigan Has More Registered Voters Than Eligible Citizens In 53 Counties, Says RNC Lawsuit
The Federalist ^ | 03/13/2024 | Bryanna Lyman

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.


Brianna Lyman is an elections correspondent at The Federalist.


TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; Politics/Elections; US: Michigan
KEYWORDS: 2024; janebeckering; michigan; registration; voterfraud
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1 posted on 03/13/2024 5:24:25 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Why nought just run the ballots through the machines over and over?


2 posted on 03/13/2024 5:26:27 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: SeekAndFind

Dead people have the right to have their voices heard and their votes counted.


3 posted on 03/13/2024 5:27:16 PM PDT by drSteve78 (Je suis Deplorable. Even more so)
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To: SeekAndFind; frank ballenger

“Dirty Josey” Benson is keeping The Michigan Cheat alive and well.


4 posted on 03/13/2024 5:27:28 PM PDT by kiryandil (what Krynky doink?)
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To: SeekAndFind

So Republicans are finally starting to pay attention. Why are so many Repubs stupid? They should have been on this a long time ago.


5 posted on 03/13/2024 5:27:37 PM PDT by jimwatx
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To: SeekAndFind

HALEY’S COMET has a “REGULAR” CYCLE, also.


6 posted on 03/13/2024 5:27:43 PM PDT by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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To: Lakeshark; null and void

Sharky?
Someone been signing the yeti in Michigan up as voters?


7 posted on 03/13/2024 5:27:52 PM PDT by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same. )
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To: SeekAndFind

I am of the opinion that every state’s voter rolls should be purged at the end of January, after a Presidential inauguration.


8 posted on 03/13/2024 5:29:50 PM PDT by taxcontrol (The choice is clear - either live as a slave on your knees or die as a free citizen on your feet.)
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To: SeekAndFind
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.”

Biden stooge Jane M. Beckering [a member of the Democrat Party] says that the Democrats aren't cheating.

9 posted on 03/13/2024 5:31:03 PM PDT by kiryandil (what Krynky doink?)
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To: SeekAndFind

I believe that Mike Lindell’s ground team found 3,000,000 more registered voters on the voter rolls, than than there are people in the state of Michigan.

Yes, you read that right, on first read.


10 posted on 03/13/2024 5:34:58 PM PDT by freepersup (“Those who conceal crimes are preparing to commit new ones.” ~Vuk Draskovic~)
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To: jimwatx
Michigan Republicans like being in the minority in state government.

They know their seats are safe in the red counties, and they don't have to work as hard.

Around "election" time, they roll out of bed and posture about "fighting the Democrats!" for a few weeks.

11 posted on 03/13/2024 5:36:12 PM PDT by kiryandil (what Krynky doink?)
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To: kiryandil

Ha. Michigan’s Dems don’t want to try a fair and honest election in 2024. Why change so drastically to something new at this late date?

Why Try To Change Me Now?—Frank Sinatra

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_qQD9iXeWc


12 posted on 03/13/2024 5:36:28 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls.)
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To: SeekAndFind
Now that Trump has won the nomination he went right to work on the new RNC, 5 dozen fired right off the bat for these despicable losers and Lara Trump is already on the ball.

This Benson commie has fingers all over MI fraud, doing nothing about the fraudulent election in 2020 and has refused to do anything about the voter roles. Trump has already won MI twice and will win the trifecta this fall.

Michigan’s Secretary of State Fights to Keep Dead on Voter Rolls

13 posted on 03/13/2024 5:37:48 PM PDT by quantim (Victory is not relative, it is absolute. )
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To: SeekAndFind
The Republican National Committee (RNC) filed a lawsuit Wednesday...

With Ronna Romney gone, that didn't take long!

14 posted on 03/13/2024 5:38:54 PM PDT by newfreep ("There is no race problem...just a problem race")
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To: SeekAndFind
"Michigan Has More Registered Voters Than Eligible Citizens In 53 Counties, Says RNC Lawsuit"


15 posted on 03/13/2024 5:39:11 PM PDT by clearcarbon (Fraudulent elections have consequences.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Related:

BREAKING: Fmr SPLC staffer and Secretary of State of Michigan Jocelyn Benson announces she is ‘coordinating’ with 6 battleground secretaries of state, Arizona, Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Georgia, and Nevada to fight a ‘common adversary’
Source: https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1765410842034508180

Thread:
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/4222378/posts


16 posted on 03/13/2024 5:43:11 PM PDT by jacknhoo (Luke 12:51; Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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To: SeekAndFind

When I left Michigan in 2009 my landlord (bless him) notified the county election commission because I forgot to. When I checked up a year later my name was not registered. But that was a Republican county, and it took his affirmative action to accomplish. I’d bet that in 99% of instances where somebody moves out of Michigan there is no effort to notify the election commission, so the name is never struck.


17 posted on 03/13/2024 5:45:43 PM PDT by Chad C. Mulligan
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To: Paladin2

There’s video of them doing that in Georgia. They “closed” the polling place due to a “water main break.” Once the observers were out they pulled out containers of ballots and repeatedly ran stacks through the machines over and over.


18 posted on 03/13/2024 5:47:54 PM PDT by Cold_Red_Steel
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To: jimwatx

So Republicans are finally starting to pay attention. Why are so many Repubs stupid? They should have been on this a long time ago.


“On this?” Many of them have been IN ON THIS!


19 posted on 03/13/2024 5:50:33 PM PDT by Cold_Red_Steel
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To: SeekAndFind

sort the database by address... should be interesting


20 posted on 03/13/2024 5:50:44 PM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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