Reasonable Inference MI Department of State Director of “Special Projects” Sally Marsh used state resources to conduct partisan GOTV projects targeting youth and ex-convicts as well as poll worker recruitment efforts. As the former Deputy Campaign Manager for the MI Secretary of State, her efforts as a state employee were likely biased in favor of […]
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Reasonable Inference Jocelyn Benson’s Michigan Center for Election Law and Administration (MCELA) received a multi‑million‑dollar grant from CEIR to fund “voter education” and digital outreach. The national and Michigan reports document that state resources and CEIR funds were used to produce and distribute messaging tailored to demographics associated with “Biden profile” voters, notwithstanding sufficient available
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Established Fact Detroit accepted CTCL grants totaling between 3.5 and 7.4 million dollars, conditioned on adding 14 satellite voting centers, 30 drop boxes, and sharply increased poll‑worker pay; Muskegon received funds for a branded GOTV trailer. These privately designed deployments materially reshaped local election operations and access patterns in ways that boosted turnout in heavily
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Established Fact Of Michigan’s 135 CTCL grant recipients above the $5,000 minimum, 90 were jurisdictions won by Joe Biden in 2020 — receiving $14.6 million, or 86 percent of all CTCL funds distributed in the state — while the 45 Trump-plurality recipients received just 14 percent. The largest awards went to urban centers with strong
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Established Fact Muskegon County received a CTCL grant that was used, in part, for voting equipment and election infrastructure deployment in the 2020 general election. The absence of surveillance coverage — particularly given Michigan law’s pre-October 2020 exemption of earlier-installed drop boxes from video monitoring requirements — was significant because Muskegon County was simultaneously the
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Established Fact A $7.4 million CTCL grant funded Detroit’s deployment of 30 drop boxes across the city for the 2020 general election. Observers documented that absentee ballots were transported from these drop boxes and satellite centers to the Detroit Department of Elections and then onward to the TCF Center in large commercial Penske rental trucks
Established Fact Detroit’s CTCL-funded partnership with the Michigan Secretary of State included the engagement of Christopher Thomas — former Michigan Bureau of Elections Director and 40-year state elections official under both Republican and Democratic administrations — as a senior advisor to Detroit City Clerk Janice Winfrey from September 3 through December 12, 2020. Thomas, a
Established Fact Detroit utilized its $7.4 million CTCL grant – which nearly doubled its Department of Elections budget of $10.5 million – in part to fund the hiring of up to 2,000 temporary election workers through a private staffing firm linked to an associate of former Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick (convicted on 24 federal felony counts).
Reasonable Inference Michigan’s Center for Election Law and Administration (MCELA), founded by Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, received a multi-million-dollar CEIR grant for “voter education” and outreach, including direct communications to voters and digital targeting. The national report documents that this messaging was geared toward boosting participation among “Biden profile” demographics and that Michigan’s own
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Established Fact Detroit received $7,436,450 from CTCL for the 2020 election — by far the largest grant in Michigan — which funded 23 satellite voting centers, 30 dedicated drop-box sites, and a near-tripling of poll-worker pay from $175 to $500 per day. City Clerk Janice Winfrey stated that “pretty much all” of the behind-the-scenes operational
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