{"id":1623681,"date":"2022-08-26T23:49:09","date_gmt":"2022-08-27T03:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1623681"},"modified":"2022-08-26T23:49:12","modified_gmt":"2022-08-27T03:49:12","slug":"benson-loses-round-in-fight-over-dead-people-on-michigan-voter-rolls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/benson-loses-round-in-fight-over-dead-people-on-michigan-voter-rolls\/","title":{"rendered":"Benson Loses Round in Fight Over Dead People on Michigan Voter Rolls"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><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%2Fbenson-loses-round-in-fight-over-dead-people-on-michigan-voter-rolls%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=1623681&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--><p>Michigan Secretary of State <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-jocelyn-benson\">Jocelyn Benson<\/a>\u2019s latest legal maneuver to avoid removing 25,975 deceased people from the state\u2019s voter rolls has been stymied by a federal court.<\/p>\n<p>Benson moved for dismissal of a case brought against her in November 2021 by the Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF) for her failure to clean up the state\u2019s voter registration rolls\u2014in an alleged violation of Section 8 of the National Voter Registration Act of 1993.<\/p>\n<p>On Aug. 25, Benson\u2019s motion to dismiss the case was denied by the Western District Court of Michigan.<\/p>\n<p>The court also denied the motions to intervene filed by the Detroit\/Downriver Chapter of the A. Philip Randolph Institute and the Michigan Alliance for Retired Americans, and Rise, Inc.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, PILF\u2019s suit seeks to force Benson to provide documentation of her efforts to remove deceased registrants from the voter rolls, something she has thus far also failed to do.<\/p>\n<p> Names of 25,975 Voters <\/p>\n<p>PILF notified Benson of the problem in September 2020 and again in November 2020, a year before it filed its lawsuit.<\/p>\n<p>The foundation provided Benson with the names of 25,975 voters its research discovered had passed away but were still on Michigan\u2019s voter rolls.<\/p>\n<p>Of these, 23,663 registrants have been dead for five years or more, and 17,449 have been dead for at least a decade.<\/p>\n<p>The study found that 3,956 registrants had been dead for at least 20 years.<\/p>\n<p>That time span encompasses the terms of both Democrat and Republican secretaries of state, an indication that neither party has been serious about a voter roll cleanup.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/WEB_JChristianAdams.jpg\"><\/a> J. Christian Adams, president of the Public Interest Legal Foundation. (File photo) <\/p>\n<p>PILF president J. Christian Adams said in a statement about the 2021 case: \u201cFor over a year we shared specific data with the Michigan Secretary of State\u2019s Office<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson\u2019s latest legal maneuver to avoid removing 25,975 deceased people from the state\u2019s voter rolls has been stymied by a federal court. 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