Posted on 02/10/2024 11:14:34 AM PST by John Semmens
The Public Interest Legal Foundation's (PILF) efforts to fight election fraud in Michigan are being fiercely resisted by Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson (D). PILF Communications Director Lauren Bis said "there are more than 17,000 registered voters in the state who have been dead for more than a decade. Their names should have been purged from the voter rolls."
Benson asserts that "there is no need for the type of intrusive intervention PILF is seeking. Deceased persons will eventually be excised from the list when it is clear that they are dead. The obituaries and grave stones PILF has cited are not definitive proof. Standing against their circumstantial evidence is the unbroken record of ballots cast by these individuals since their supposed deaths. I am not going to be cowed into a hasty disenfranchisement of persons who have been dutifully voting for years beyond the dates that PILF asserts they have been physically unable to cast ballots."
PILF President J. Christian Adams called Benson's resistance "a clear violation of the National Voter Registration Act (NVRA) of 1993. The US District Court in Michigan has already ruled that she must comply with the law, but she is appealing that ruling."
Benson said "court rulings are just opinions. The only person with the power to compel me to change the way we do business here is Gov. Whitmer (D). If she sends the State Police after me I will comply with her orders. Otherwise I will continue to do what I think is right and necessary."
In related news, Elon Musk pointed out that "illegal immigrants are not prevented from voting. The ID requirements in the law don't require proof of citizenship. A utility bill or bank statement with the person's name on it is enough. You don't have to be a citizen to have a bank account or pay an electric bill. In fact, in 2016 President Obama pointed out that there is no effective way to prevent non-citizens from illegally voting."
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Has anyone else noticed, it is always Democrats who protest when the names of dead people are taken off lists of voters?
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