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MI State Rep. James DeSana (R-Carleton) today held a press conference to announce the introduction of House Resolution 118, which contains three Articles of Impeachment against Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson. “As a legislator and lifelong Michigan resident, it is my belief that we are dealing with the most lawless Secretary of State in Michigan history,” said Rep. DeSana. “Not only has she flaunted numerous Michigan laws, but Michigan courts have ruled against her on seven separate occasions.” The Articles cite numerous instances in which DeSana alleges Secretary Benson violated state and federal election laws, abused her authority, and...

Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson (D), who previously claimed that non-citizens weren’t voting in her state, found that there were "15 credible" instances of non-citizens voting in Michigan in the 2024 November general election. Meanwhile, both the Michigan state legislature and the federal government are seeking to require proof of citizenship for voter registration, which Benson opposes. Benson has repeatedly downplayed the problem of non-citizens voting in elections, even after more were found to have voted in the 2024 general election than previously assumed. Regardless of non-citizens voting, Benson claims that requiring citizenship proof to register to vote is...

Last week, America’s most dishonest Secretary of State, Jocelyn Benson (Soros Democrat), held a press conference at the Richard H. Austin building in Lansing, MI, to announce her candidacy for governor. The unpopular Democrat SOS is running to replace Michigan’s equally unpopular Democrat Governor Gretchen Whitmer, who is term-limited. Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson is filing her gubernatorial campaign committee at the Richard H. Austin Building in Lansing ... The problem is, as she has done so many times before, it appears Jocelyn Benson violated the law. Benson’s announcement to run for governor violated Michigan campaign finance law when she...

Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan, a longtime Democrat, says he will run for Michigan governor as an independent in 2026. “It’s clear to me that there are a lot of people in this country who are tired of both parties and tired of the system," Duggan said in an interview Tuesday. “And so I want to offer people a choice.” Duggan, 66, is credited by many for leading Detroit after it emerged from bankruptcy to become a thriving, more vibrant city. He formally announced his intentions in a video released Wednesday morning but discussed his future before that with The Associated...

Standing in front of a small group of select journalists, Michigan’s Democrat Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson explained how Dominion voting machines are not working properly in a state that began early voting and early tabulating last week. Never one to miss an opportunity to deceive voters into believing she’s a proponent of free and fair elections, the former Southern Poverty Law Center (hate group) board member stood in front of the cameras last week and smirked during a press conference when she was asked about how a Dominion Voting machine issue, that was detected in September but is just...

Michigan Secretary of State, Democrat Jocelyn Benson admits there’s a nationwide issue with Dominion terminals that prevents voters from making certain selections while voting. They call this a “programming issue”. You know what doesn’t have programming issues? Paper ballots. ... We tried to warn you it was coming. Breaking reports now confirm Nationwide issues with Dominion voting machines. There must be paper ballots only! ... Veteran U.S. Air Force CIA Officer has evidence that can prove the source code operating the election machines in Smartmatic and Dominion voting machines that determines the U.S. Presidency are owned by the Venezuelan Narco...

In September 2024, we reported that data experts Tim Vetter, Data Lead for United Sovereign Americans, and Phani Mantravadi of Check My Vote identified 6,126 duplicate votes on the August primary voter rolls. Later, 6,017 of the duplicate votes curiously disappeared from the voter rolls after our reporting, while 109 duplicate votes remained in the October vote history. “Our Secretary of State has a record of scrubbing the voter rolls after the media and election integrity groups bring it to their attention.” ... From our September 2024 article: A STUNNING analysis of voter history records by Michigan data expert Tim...

The voter rolls in Michigan claim that there are 8.4 million people registered to vote in the crucial swing state, even though the state’s total population is almost half a million less than that.According to the Daily Wire, the state of Michigan had previously been sued by the Republican National Committee (RNC) over the extremely inflated voter rolls, and other concerns regarding election integrity.But Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson (D-Mich.) dismissed such concerns in a statement on Wednesday, claiming with no evidence that these lawsuits “lay the groundwork to overturn the results of the election if they don’t like them.”“The...

Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson (D) said she expects her state’s election results to be certified the day after the Nov. 5 general election. She said without hesitation she will certify the results of the presidential election — no matter who wins. Currently, former President Trump is leading Vice President Harris by 0.4 percentage points in Michigan, according to The Hill/Decision Desk HQ.

Michigan’s top election official, Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, a Democrat, is the subject of a bar complaint over her department’s actions to keep independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s name on the ballot. State Sen. Ruth Johnson, a Republican who immediately preceded Benson as secretary of state, filed the bar complaint alleging that Benson manipulated procedures to undermine the Nov. 5 election. Michigan is one of the most fiercely contested battleground states. Vice President Kamala Harris, a Democrat, and former President Donald Trump, a Republican, are separated by a single percentage point, according to the Real Clear Politics...

A Michigan State Supreme Court justice accepted an $82,500 donation earlier this year from a PAC tied to Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, at a time when the seven-member Supreme Court was deciding an appeal filed by Benson.The campaign committee for State Supreme Court Justice Kyra Harris Bolden reported receiving the donation on May 17, 2024. The source of the donation, Legacy PAC, was founded and operated by Benson. Campaign finance reports show that an $82,500 donation was given on April 26, 2024, to the Keep Kyra Harris Bolden for Justice committee.At the time, Bolden sat on the seven-member...

The Republican National Committee and Michigan GOP on Monday announced another win for election integrity in the Wolverine State.After suing Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson for giving election officials improper guidance—telling local clerks and election inspectors to process and count mail ballots that did not include stub numbers—the court held that the absentee ballots must be corrected.Secretary Benson even acknowledged at the hearing that voter fraud could be committed through ballots that do not have matching serial numbers, the RNC noted.“The RNC applauds the finding by the Court requiring Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson to follow Michigan law...

Clerks are taking ballots home — with no observers present — to check voters’ registration, document dates of receipt, and verify signatures.On behalf of the Committee on House Administration, Chairman Bryan Steil, R-Wis., is asking Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson to clarify to local clerks that state party-appointed observers, also called challengers, are permitted to monitor the initial stage of mail-in ballot processing, and her office is ignoring the request.In his Sept. 13 letter to Benson following her testimony at the committee’s Sept. 11 hearing on American confidence in elections, Steil asked Benson for clarification because, he wrote, “it...

The Michigan Farm Bureau’s AgriPAC endorsed former Rep. Mike Rogers (R-MI) over Rep. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) in the battle for the open Michigan Senate race. The Michigan Farm Bureau has not endorsed a Republican for the Senate seat since 2006, having backed the retiring Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) in her 2012 and 2018 Senate races.

Remember when GOP poll challengers were kicked out of Detroit’s absentee ballot counting room on the day after the 2020 election? Can you guess which type of ballots they were counting? If we told you they were UOCAVA votes, would that mean anything to you? Does the average American citizen even have a clue what the acronym ‘UOCAVA’ stands for? If you don’t know what the acronym UOCAVA stands for, you should because it could very well be the key to how Democrats plan to steal our upcoming election from President Trump and pro-America candidates running for seats up and...

The Michigan Supreme Court on Monday ruled Robert F. Kennedy Jr. must stay on the state’s ballot even though he suspended his campaign. RFK Jr. asked to be removed from ballots in ten key battleground states after he suspended his campaign last month. RFK will stay on the ballot in states where his presence will hurt Kamala, and he will remove himself from ballots in states where his presence hurts Trump. “In about 10 battleground states, where my presence would be a spoiler, I’m going to remove my name. And I’ve already started that process and urge voters not to...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. won two appeals Friday as he seeks to have his name removed from state ballots, delaying the expected first mailing of absentee ballots of the 2024 elections.In North Carolina, an appeals court said Kennedy should be removed from the ballot, a ruling that would require counties to reprint ballots which were expected to be mailed beginning Friday. It's unclear if that ruling, which reverses a lower court's denial Thursday, will be appealed. But it will at least temporarily delay the distribution of mail ballots.In Michigan, an appeals court agreed to remove Kennedy from the ballot as...

Cheryl Fritze, director of News Operations for Michigan News Source, said Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson is “in cahoots” with Governor Gretchen Whitmer and Attorney General Dana Nessel when it comes to conducting the state’s elections and intimidating county election coordinators. In a recent video, Benson said she would go after local election officials who do not certify election results despite the possibility of legitimate legal concerns about the results. “[I]f someone were to violate the law and not certify the election at the local level, we will come for you,” Benson said in a video published by...

Like something right out of Nazi Germany, the Michigan Bureau of Elections is demanding that citizens … “Do your part!” about election misinformation. “Just as election officials have a duty to detect election misinformation and quickly provide correct information based on the law,” the posting reads, “voters have a responsibility to proactively seek out reliable sources of information and encourage productive and honest dialogue.” Did you know that? Did you know you have that “responsibility?”

Five secretaries of state plan to send an open letter to billionaire Elon Musk on Monday, urging him to “immediately implement changes” to X’s AI chatbot Grok, after it shared with millions of users false information suggesting that Kamala Harris was not eligible to appear on the 2024 presidential ballot. The letter, spearheaded by Minnesota Secretary of State Steve Simon and signed by his counterparts Al Schmidt of Pennsylvania, Steve Hobbs of Washington, Jocelyn Benson of Michigan and Maggie Toulouse Oliver of New Mexico, urges Musk to “immediately implement changes to X’s AI search assistant, Grok, to ensure voters have...