Michigan

Secretary of State Directive to Delete Electronic Pollbook Software (MI)

Disputed Fact Michigan Bureau of Elections, under Secretary Benson, issued a February 12, 2021 memorandum to county clerks directing that certain election records “must be deleted” and that electronic pollbook software and associated files be deleted. This directive was issued within the 22-month federal preservation window and appears to conflict facially with 52 U.S.C. §

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Missing Server Security Logs Prior to 11:03 PM, Nov. 4, 2020 (MI)

Established Fact All server security logs prior to 11:03 PM on November 4, 2020 – including all logs covering Election Day itself – were missing from the Antrim County EMS, destroying evidence of network connections and data transfers on and before election night. CyFIR forensic examiner Ben Cotton found anonymous remote logon activity on November

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Missing 2020 Adjudication Logs (Prior Years Intact) (MI)

Established Fact Forensic audits of the Antrim County EMS server found that adjudication log entries for the 2020 election cycle were entirely absent, while logs from prior years using identical software remained intact. Given that the 2020 Antrim County election featured a reported 68.05% error rate triggering mass ballot adjudication, the absence of these logs

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ElectionSource (Dominion Subcontractor) Directed Battery Removal from Voting Machines – Resetting Configuration Data and Destroying Forensic Evidence (MI)

Reasonable Inference [Reasonable Inference – Characterization as evidence destruction] ElectionSource – a Dominion Voting Systems subcontractor under Michigan State Contract #071B7700117 – issued letters to county clerks directing “preventative maintenance” that included the removal of internal batteries from voting machines. Per voting machine operations manuals, battery removal resets a machine to factory default settings, erasing

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ElectionSource (Dominion Subcontractor) Directed Battery Removal from Voting Machines (MI)

Established Fact [Established Fact – Battery removal directive confirmed; 26-county access confirmed] ElectionSource – a Dominion Voting Systems subcontractor under Michigan State Contract #071B7700117 – issued letters to county clerks directing “preventative maintenance” that included the removal of internal batteries from voting machines. Per voting machine operations manuals, battery removal resets a machine to factory

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Manual Deletion of All 2020 Adjudication Logs From EMS Server; Prior Years’ Logs Intact (MI)

Established Fact The December 13, 2020 forensic report by Allied Security Operations Group (ASOG) on the Antrim County EMS confirmed that all adjudication logs for the 2020 election cycle were entirely absent from the server, while logs for prior election years using the identical software remained intact. Adjudication logs are the transaction records of every

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Priorities USA v Benson (MI)

Established Fact Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson issued administrative guidance on signature matching for absentee ballots — directing clerks to presume signatures valid — following the filing and voluntary dismissal of a “friendly” lawsuit by Priorities USA (No. 3:19-cv-13188, E.D. Mich.). The lawsuit was dismissed in May 2020 after Benson issued guidance that largely

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AFL-CIO “Shadow Campaign” Directives – Union Deployment to Counting Centers (MI)

Established Fact Mike Podhorzer, a senior AFL-CIO advisor described by Time magazine as the “architect” of the shadow campaign, distributed internal directives before the election explicitly detailing how the election would play out in battleground states and mobilizing union members to be deployed to polling and counting centers in Michigan to “control the narrative” and

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ERIC System -Connected to State Voter Registration Database APIs

Established Fact Established Fact as to WisVote API access to ERIC and CTCL.  The Electronic Registration Information Center (ERIC) is a nonprofit consortium of which Michigan, Pennsylvania, Georgia, Wisconsin, and Arizona were all members in 2020. ERIC receives voter roll data from member states and compares it to detect duplicate registrations, deceased voters, and address

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25,709 dead voters on voter rolls (MI)

Disputed Fact PILF’s voter roll error map lists for Michigan: “Deceased Registrants as of 2020: 25,709.”In later litigation-related press materials, PILF repeatedly describes having “more than 26,000” deceased registrants on Michigan’s voter rolls. PILF further breaks this down as:23,663 registrants dead for five years or more.17,479 registrants dead for at least a decade.3,956 registrants dead

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