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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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To: kiryandil

The state RINOs used too own things, over the last couple of elections many conservatives have stayed home - the days of voting for lesser of evils is over. Or so it appears.

It’s been decades since MI lost both the state house and the state senate and there is really no difference. Hopefully many RINOs/rats will face the music and lose their seats to flip us back to red.

John James for example is pathetic, not a wonder he lost two times for the senate and is emblematic of what is wrong with the RNC/state GOPe.

The only way to get people to the polls is not mail or TV ads, it’s doing their damned job, we’ll see.

And term limits don’t work.


21 posted on 03/13/2024 5:54:23 PM PDT by quantim (Victory is not relative, it is absolute. )
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To: SeekAndFind

It’s nice that Michigan let Pauline stay active in politics for thirty years after her death.


22 posted on 03/13/2024 5:56:28 PM PDT by csn vinnie
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To: Paladin2

They do that, too - in Detroit. There is a poll worker being interviewed in the 2016 presidential election in Detroit, who is on camera stating she was told to run the paper ballots through the tabulating machines 3 times in that precinct.

If you recall, because MI was so close, Jill Stein, with the encouragement of the democrat party, sued the state for a recount, which MI agreed to do.

When the recount made its way to Detroit precincts, those doing the recount, found exactly 3 times the number of votes reported as those voted in some but not all of Detroit’s precincts. At this point, Jill Stein and the democrats said they were no longer interested in a recount and they were satisfied that Trump won Michigan. The recount was stopped dead in its tracks.

I remember thinking, finally they have been caught and in my naivete, I believed as soon as Trump’s AG was confirmed, they would now investigate Detroit and, of course, we never heard another word about it.

For 2020, I recall reading that a Detroit whistleblower reported running the ballots through 9 times. At this rate, in 2024. they will need to run the ballots through 27 times!


23 posted on 03/13/2024 6:06:14 PM PDT by Dave W
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To: SeekAndFind

obviously racist


24 posted on 03/13/2024 6:21:09 PM PDT by Third Person
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To: SeekAndFind

In an election, if the number of votes in a county exceed the number of registered voters, those results should be completely thrown out. The voters are being disenfranchised regardless. If every registered Republican votes, the Democrats cannot cheat, as the number of votes cannot exceed the combined total of registered voters. The Democrats will not know how many people voted Republican until all the votes are counted.


25 posted on 03/13/2024 6:21:09 PM PDT by Hoosier-Daddy ("Washington, DC. You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious")
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To: SeekAndFind

McRomney is gone, and we are finally seeing the RNC do something about the massive voter fraud. Now imagine what could happen if the U.S. House shut down the government to end mail in ballot fraud using the USPS?


26 posted on 03/13/2024 6:22:17 PM PDT by Dr. Franklin ("A republic, if you can keep it." )
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To: SeekAndFind

Sample of Michigan evidence - 2020 election:

11,806 ballots were cast in the names of deceased voters in MI

my reply 48 - the count by cities (limited display - there were so many)

my reply 61 - the count by counties


27 posted on 03/13/2024 6:27:22 PM PDT by linMcHlp
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To: SeekAndFind
Nothing new.

In 1861 there was a vote on the question of secession in Stewart County, Tennessee.

The vote was 1,000 in favor and zero against secession. There were about 200 eligible voters in the county at the time.

28 posted on 03/13/2024 6:30:24 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: jimwatx

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/01/09/rnc-ballot-security-consent-decree-328995


29 posted on 03/13/2024 6:31:51 PM PDT by Eagles6 (Welcome to the Matrix . Orwell's "1984" was a warning, not an instruction manual.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Need to make sure my parents are NOT registered.


30 posted on 03/13/2024 6:38:58 PM PDT by madison10
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To: SeekAndFind

31 posted on 03/13/2024 6:55:23 PM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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To: kiryandil

Most Republicans in Congress prefer being in the minority as well. They get all the perks, get invited to all the right parties, promiseto do something when they’re the majority. get reelected and then don’t do it. The Republican Party is not just the stupid party. It is the party of collusion.


32 posted on 03/13/2024 6:57:53 PM PDT by Freee-dame
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To: SeekAndFind

I’m sure it is just a accident, right?


33 posted on 03/13/2024 7:11:28 PM PDT by matt04 ( )
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To: kiryandil

>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.<

RIGHT on the money! I’ve said that for decades. They’ve never changed.


34 posted on 03/13/2024 7:25:46 PM PDT by TribalPrincess2U (Bye done!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Any state where a democrat “wins” you will find massive cheat, even in their “safest” districts.


35 posted on 03/13/2024 7:44:58 PM PDT by RasterMaster ("Towering genius disdains a beaten path." - Abraham Lincoln)
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To: SeekAndFind
...... Dead people absolutely have the right to their vote .... The constitution says that "Citizens" have the right to vote .... It does not state that you need to be a "Living Citizen" to vote!

...... I think we need to understand that ..... The powerful ..... "National Association for the Rights of Dead People" ....... Pulls a lot of weight in Democrat controlled States ...... If you go to their obviously NGO funded site you will see that they are extremely entrenched in the Democrat and NWO agenda ....

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36 posted on 03/13/2024 7:57:21 PM PDT by R_Kangel ("A nation of sheep will beget a nation ruled by wolves")
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To: freepersup

Yeah, but how many are in the cemeteries?

🤔


37 posted on 03/14/2024 12:38:16 AM PDT by ConjunctionJunction (Vim vi repellere licet)
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To: freepersup

Many democrats were elected by many more votes than the number of registered voters in those areas.

This happened over and over again all across the country.

Vote fraud and voter
fraud has been rampant in the last few elections.

Now that Ronna is gone, the RNC has a new leader:

Michael Whatley is the new chair of the RNC. Trump’s daughter-in-law is co-chair

They are pushing using all legal means to see that Conservative votes are cast and counted.

They will do ballot harvesting in all areas where it is legal.

Hopefully they can find more creative ways to beat the dem fraud.


38 posted on 03/14/2024 1:34:08 AM PDT by Syncro (God is Good--Facts is Facts)
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To: SeekAndFind

Well, now we know how Biden got 81 million votes. But I have a fix for this. Tally general election votes by county. If the candidate wins a county, they get 1 point. Most points won in a state gets those electoral votes.

Want to vote 50 times in King County in Washington State? Go ahead. Vote 100 times since it will only count for 1 point. Plus, doing it this way isolates the fraud to one county and will be easier to monitor and catch those who violate the law.

We need a way to audit elections to ensure the process is going as intended and prosecute those who violate the laws. It ends election fraud at the state level.


39 posted on 03/14/2024 3:22:32 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (Trump/Jennifer-Ruth Green in 24)
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To: Paladin2
Michigan Has More Registered Voters Than Eligible Citizens

I would expect nothing less...

40 posted on 03/14/2024 3:53:40 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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