Michigan Election Integrity Under Fire

Michigan Election Integrity Under Fire

Michigan entered the 2024 election cycle with claims of 500,000 more registered voters than voting-age adults. Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson is accused of mass-sending voter registrations while denying FOIA requests. In a slow-growth state, officials question how 750,000 new voters appeared between July and October. Critics point to ERIC, a system Benson says cleans voter rolls but that instead identifies and contacts unregistered adults. Despite calling herself the transparency candidate, Benson has refused to release ERIC reports, even though the system was used in 2020 to mail registration postcards to 700,000 people, fueling concerns voter rolls are being artificially inflated.