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In the last report, we highlighted that the SOS cannot produce a list of voters from the 2020 election.  As we dig deeper into the recorded votes of the 2020 election, the list of anomalies continues to accumulate… 

As a reminder, November 3^rd, 2020

EIF took the 5,558,327 recorded votes from the 2020 election and conducted an investigation.  It focused on the legitimacy of voter registrations and legitimacy of voter status.  

Voter Legitimacy

As stated in MCL168.10, a qualified elector is someone who has resided in the jurisdiction for 30 days leading up to the election.  For the November 3^rd, 2020 election this means anyone who moved out of state before October 3^rd, 2020 does not qualify to vote. 

EIF purchased permanent location move information from the United States Postal Service.  This database is called National Change of Address.  The database is maintained by the USPS and used by banks, investigators, and law enforcement.  

According to the NCOA database, 7,929 registrants voted in the 2020 election, while living in a different state.  These people who voted in Michigan had moved before September 1^st, 2020, more than 60 days before the election!  

Let’s take a look at the number of eligible votes now… 

November 3^rd, 2020

Registration Legitimacy

In MCL chapter 168, there are multiple citations related to what can qualify as an address when registering to vote.  A short list is as follows; 168.10 & 168.509q. 

EIF conducted a sweeping analysis of addresses with high registration numbers.  The qualifications for a residence can be paraphrased into one “in which a person habitually sleeps, keeps their belongings, and is a regular place of lodging.”  Working off of this information, EIF canvassed for addresses that do not meet this requirement.  The list of what was tracked down is as follows: 

1. Registrations with no address, either a street name or number.
2. Registrations with no extensions for apartments, trailer parks, or senior living facilities.
3. Registrations at businesses or empty lots.
4. Registrations at prisons, seasonal RV parks, virtual mailboxes, and cemeteries.
5. Registrations at UPS and USPS P.O. Boxes

This challenge list was compared against the November 3^rd, 2020 election and identified an additional 10,218 votes that violate registration laws.  I wonder, are these real people?  Over 65% of them voted Absentee. 

November 3^rd, 2020

The picture is painted a little differently now.  There are 20,990 votes missing from the Secretary of State records, 7,929 people voted from out of state, and 10,218 registrants have addresses that do not meet voting requirements.  

We are now 39,137 votes short of the reported number in 2020. 

The information presented here is conservative and the list of unlawful registrations is growing.  EIF is continuing the investigation and audit of our election records.

Stay tuned for the next release to see what is prepared for 2022.

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According to Michigan SOS Benson, in her testimony on May 12^th, 2021, “The 2020 election was the most safe, secure and accessible in our state’s history. This truth was affirmed through more than 250 audits conducted throughout our state by bipartisan groups of election administrators.”¹

Looking for answers, an initiative kicked off after the election.  Election Integrity Force (EIF) started to use “Freedom of Information Act” (FOIA) requests to obtain “Qualified Voter Files” (QVF) on a periodical basis.

If this truly was the most safe, secure, and accessible election in Michigan’s history, the records should reflect that sentiment.  Voters’ election history are required to be recorded in the statewide Qualified Voter File seven days after an election, per MCL chapter 168.509 & 168.813.5.

According to the Michigan SOS’s office, the total turnout for the November 3^rd, 2020 general election was 5,579,317².  Over the past two years, EIF has collected multiple QVF records and compared them against the supposed turn out from Nov 3^rd, 2020.

The QVF has never reached the reported numbers as listed on the SOS website.  The first QVF FOIA from Dec 1^st, 2020, shows 104,137 missing votes.  The closest the QVF gets to being accurate is from the April 1^st, 2021 data, 68,014 recorded votes short of the reported number.

EIF compiled a unique list of voters from those who were added or deleted over the 2 year period after the election.  The total number of voters in the 2020 election seem to decrease, as seen in the graphic above.  However, the unique list captures the additions to the 2020 election in a cumulative amount.  This list was compared against another FOIA from the SOS, whose requester was Patrick Colbeck.  After almost 2 years from the Nov 3^rd, 2020 election, this is the best the SOS could manage… 

November 3^rd, 2020

The SOS response, almost 2 years after the election was completed, resulted in 22,146 voters short.

The cumulative EIF list is 20,990 voters short.

In all walks of business, from healthcare to automotive, external audits are used to ensure proper adherence to law and help protect the industry from fraudulent / criminal activity.  The evidence provided above shows the difference of reported results versus recorded results.  It took 2 years to compile this list and it is still incomplete.  How can citizens trust elections if the process is broken or incomplete?

This lack of accuracy raises a question...are the internal audits touted by the SOS working?  If anything, this information increases the need for external audits.  EIF will continue identifying errors, inaccuracies, and potential criminal activity across the state.

The fight for transparent and trustworthy elections presses on!

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Source¹: https://www.michigan.gov/-/media/Project/Websites/sos/30lawens/Committee_testimony_5_12_21.pdf?rev=d58678c4e18b4350862a5b6df58ccdd1

Source²: https://mielections.us/election/results/2020GEN_CENR.html

Let’s be blunt. Michigan has a voter over-registration problem. If we do not correct the voter over-registration problem we put our 2022 election – and future elections - at risk. Over registrations in the voter rolls create an environment where identities of inactive and infrequent voters can be stolen via ballot harvesting and other tactics. So how exactly did we get over registered? That is an interesting question indeed! 

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NEWS UPDATE

On Friday, July 29, Election Integrity Force launched its first ever statewide ballot challenge initiative. Our team analyzed a recent August primary Absentee Ballot Daily report against National Change of Address data, our inactive voter file and completed a review of the absentee voter records for incompleteness or inaccuracies.

The resulting list included more than 22000 absentee ballot challenges across all 83 counties and impacted 924 of our more than 1500 jurisdictions.

We are hopeful that this ballot challenge will shed light on some of the issues and inaccuracies seen in the Michigan Qualified Voter File and compel clerks, the legislature and other government leaders to address, what we believe, are more than 1.5 million inappropriate voter registrations in Michigan.

Initial feedback from clerks began within hours of the challenge lists being distributed has been positive. We look forward to more feedback in the days to come.