Here Are Three Dead People Jocelyn Benson Wants To Keep On Michigan’s Voter Rolls

Jocelyn Benson, Michigan Secretary of State, will not remove deceased registrants off her state’s voter roll anytime soon if she gets her way. She challenged a court order to do so.

A U.S. District Court denied Benson’s August request to be exonerated dismiss a lawsuit, Filled The Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF), a conservative firm that is committed to electoral integrity, informed Benson of deceased registrants it found on Michigan’s voter list and her obligation to remove them. The group notified Benson about deceased registrants that it found on Michigan’s voting lists in the fall of 2020 and her obligation under the National Voter Registration Act to remove them. “a reasonable effort to remove the names of ineligible voters from the official lists of eligible voters.”

Benson failed to remove the ineligible registrations despite appearing to have violated the law. The ongoing lawsuit brought by PILF seeks to compel Benson’s removal of nearly 26,000 voters from Michigan’s rolls. As The Federalist previously reported reported:

PILF’s own analysis shows that 23663 registrants died within five years of each other, while 17,479 registrants had been dead for at most a decade. [and] 3.956 registrants died within the last 20 years.

PILF bought Michigan’s voter rolls and hired a data analyst expert to compare the names with social security records and other public documentation.

According to records provided to The Federalist from PILF, Pauline Schmainda who was born in 1908 but died in 1990 is still on Michigan’s voters lists. Since her death, eight presidential elections and many more federal elections took place. You would think she was dead. Obituary The Detroit Free Press would have made her ineligible to vote in Michigan’s elections. But Benson says otherwise.

Mary StislickiAnother name on the state’s electoral rolls is that of, who was born 1913 and died 1997. If she were still alive, she would have been 109.

Mary Augustyniak, another deceased voter, is still on Michigan’s rolls. Augustyniak, who was born in 1916, would be 107 today if she had not died. 1998: Died — the year then-President Bill Clinton’s impeachment began.

These are just three of the thousands of voters PILF has identified as deceased on Michigan’s current voter list. They have yet to be removed despite being dead for numerous presidential and federal elections. The risk of fraud is high because ineligible voters filling out voter rolls poses a great deal of risk, especially since many states are loosening their voting rules to send ballots or applications every registered voter, allow no-excuse absentee voter voting, make Election Day into an election month, collect millions by mail, and to reduce the voting requirements.

“Secretary Benson is violating federal law by failing to remove deceased registrants from the rolls,” Lauren Bis, a spokeswoman for PILF, told The Federalist. “The Foundation identified over 25,000 people, many of whom were identified by the Foundation’s analysis,” Lauren Bis, spokeswoman for PILF told The Federalist.