Established Fact On October 6, 2021, Macomb County Clerk Michael Grix contacted the Michigan Department of State and ES&S for FOIA policy guidance regarding a Pro V&V analysis of ES&S voting systems in use in the county. ES&S responded by recommending specific provisions of Michigan Compiled Law that county officials could use to deny public […]
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Established Fact ElectionSource (operating as MC&E, Inc., Grand Rapids, MI), Dominion Voting Systems’ authorized service provider and designated Michigan support contact, functioned as the de facto election system administrator for at least 22 Michigan counties during the 2020 election cycle, with ElectionSource technicians — not elected clerks — responsible for determining configuration settings, deploying project
Established Fact Detroit City Clerk Janice Winfrey retained Chris Thomas — former Director of the Michigan Bureau of Elections for 36 years under both Republican and Democratic secretaries of state — as a senior election consultant for the 2020 general election, as part of a partnership with the Michigan Secretary of State’s office. Thomas possessed
Established Fact Dominion Voting Systems’ authorized service provider, ElectionSource (operating as MC&E, Inc., of Grand Rapids, Michigan), was documented to have had access to project files for at least 22 Michigan counties on the Antrim County election management system server, including Alcona, Alger, Alpena, Arenac, Berrien, Calhoun, Charlevoix, Cheboygan, Gogebic, Houghton, Iosco, Isabella, Keweenaw, Manistee,
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Established Fact Detroit’s CTCL grant (approx. 3.5-7.4 million dollars depending on tranche) included a clause granting CTCL the right, “in its sole judgment,” to demand return of funds if Detroit did not adhere to the grant’s conditions (e.g., implementing specified satellite offices, drop boxes, and staffing models). This placed core questions of compliance with election-administration
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Established Fact The Michigan Department of State, under Secretary Jocelyn Benson, established API contracts granting Rock the Vote and approximately 25,000 partner organizations direct remote access to Michigan’s Qualified Voter File (QVF), which contains voters’ Personally Identifiable Information (PII), including partial Social Security Numbers and driver’s license numbers. These access agreements were executed without NIST-compliant
Established Fact The Michigan Department of State, under Secretary Jocelyn Benson, established API contracts granting Rock the Vote and approximately 25,000 partner organizations direct remote access to Michigan’s Qualified Voter File (QVF), which contains voters’ Personally Identifiable Information (PII), including partial Social Security Numbers and driver’s license numbers. These access agreements were executed without NIST-compliant
Established Fact Wayne County executed a Memorandum of Agreement granting the Center for Internet Security (CIS) – operating as MS-ISAC/EI-ISAC – the right to inspect network traffic in a decrypted state via Albert Sensor endpoint access to county election infrastructure. This gave a federally-affiliated private NGO – not subject to direct democratic accountability and not
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Established Fact The Center for Internet Security (CIS) executed Memoranda of Agreement with local governments, including Wayne County, for Albert sensor monitoring. The MOAs granted CIS the right to inspect network traffic “in a decrypted state” and explicitly stated that users “have no reasonable expectation of privacy” on those monitored networks. In practice, this centralized
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Established Fact Michigan Director of Elections Jonathan Brater issued a memorandum on August 4, 2021, directing all Michigan clerks that they “should never allow access to election equipment to entities other than election officials and staff, licensed vendors, and accredited VSTLs.” The memo warned that granting access to unauthorized personnel “may result in the decertification
