{"id":1359574,"date":"2022-03-05T07:36:05","date_gmt":"2022-03-05T12:36:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1359574"},"modified":"2022-03-05T07:37:40","modified_gmt":"2022-03-05T12:37:40","slug":"audit-finds-michigan-failed-to-properly-update-voting-rolls-before-2020-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/audit-finds-michigan-failed-to-properly-update-voting-rolls-before-2020-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Audit Finds Michigan Failed to Properly Update Voting Rolls Before 2020 Election"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Faudit-finds-michigan-failed-to-properly-update-voting-rolls-before-2020-election%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1359574&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/justthenews.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/social_media_share\/public\/2020-11\/GettyImages-1283883962.jpg?h=199d8c1f&#038;itok=MJM9HG6j\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Michigan voting rolls were not properly updated prior to the November 2020 election, <a href=\"https:\/\/audgen.michigan.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/r231023521-4999.pdf\">according to an audit<\/a> released Friday by the Michigan Office of the Auditor General.<\/p>\n<p>The audit of the Bureau of Elections concludes Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson\u2019s office did not adhere to state election law by properly updating and reconciling Michigan\u2019s qualified voter roll. This oversight, according to the audit, increased the risk of ineligible voters casting ballots. Additionally, the audit identified discrepancies and inconsistencies in Benson\u2019s statements in defense of her department\u2019s internal post-election audits.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe independent, nonpartisan audit released today shows that the work we have been doing in the Legislature to strengthen our elections is incredibly important,\u201d said Rep. Ann Bollin, R-Brighton Township, chairwoman of the House Elections and Ethics Committee, said in a statement. \u201cThe Secretary of State failed to follow through on her duty to keep the state\u2019s voter rolls clean and accurate and she failed to oversee the completion of all of the post-election audits, misleading the public along the way. These failures only highlight the importance of the work we are doing to improve election integrity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The audit was prompted after members of the House requested Auditor General Doug Ringler conduct a review the 2019 and 2020 election in Michigan. Ringler noted Benson\u2019s office failed to require county clerks complete and submit post-election audits in a timely fashion.<\/p>\n<p>Approximately 8.6% of the 361 post-election audits, or a total of 31 audits, were not submitted. Of the 31 audits, 12 were incomplete. Another 10.3% of post-election audits were submitted between two days and 47 days late.<\/p>\n<p>Another 17% of post-election audits failed to provide a hand count of statewide race ballots \u2013 directly refuting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.michigan.gov\/documents\/sos\/BOE_2020_Post_Election_Audit_Report_04_21_21_723005_7.pdf\">claims by the SOS<\/a> that alleged all required hand recounts were completed as required.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2026 Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson has misled the public and the Legislature about her failure to administer our valuable post-election audits,\u201d Rep. Julie Alexander, R-Hanover, said in a separate statement. \u201cShe also failed to remove dead voters from the rolls as mandated by state law \u2013 even after a previous warning from the auditor general. The latest audit of her department\u2019s shortcomings only affirms the importance of our legislative efforts to strengthen election integrity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The OAG reported 41 voters died at least 40 days prior to the elections held in May 2019 and November 2020. Ballots from those voters were nonetheless counted under the names of the deceased individuals.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Matt Hall, R-Marshall, issued a statement on Friday, in which he stated: \u201cThe audit found 2,775 total votes cast by electors who died prior to Election Day for eight elections spanning from May 7, 2019 to the most recent general election in November 2020. Over 99 percent of this total voted absentee and 41 of these voters died 41 days or more before an election. The report also shows people who were under 18 voted. Voter identification laws I have supported would correct these issues.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michigan voting rolls were not properly updated prior to the November 2020 election, according to an audit released Friday by the Michigan Office of the Auditor General.The audit of the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1359574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1359574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1359574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1359574\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1359574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1359574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1359574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}