Michigan

MCELA-CEIR “Voter Education” as De Facto GOTV (MI)

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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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Private Infrastructure and Mobile GOTV Trailers (MI)

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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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MCELA–CEIR Grant for “Voter Education” as In‑Kind GOTV (MI)

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Reasonable Inference Jocelyn Benson founded the Michigan Center for Election Law and Administration (MCELA), a nonprofit that received no material revenue until September 2020, when it was awarded an $11.9 million grant from CEIR — the Zuckerberg-funded Center for Election Innovation and Research — nominally for “voter education.” MCELA directed 99% of those funds —

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Bureau of Elections Promoted Private CTCL Grants via Official State Communications Infrastructure (MI)

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Established Fact The Michigan Bureau of Elections used its official government email infrastructure — the Bureau’s statewide News Update system, which automatically delivered communications to every municipal clerk and deputy clerk in the state — to relay CTCL grant application information directly to local election officials in September 2020. The Bureau’s News Update of September

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Conflict of Interest pertinent to financial transactions featuring MI SoS Jocelyn Benson and Silicon Valley Community Foundations (MI)

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Reasonable Inference The financial relationship between SVCF and Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson warrants scrutiny as a structural conflict of interest facilitated through multiple layers of nonprofit intermediaries. SVCF, as the donor-advised fund custodian for the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, disbursed $69.5 million to the Center for Election Innovation and Research (CEIR). CEIR in turn

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MI SoS Refuses to testify before the MI House Oversight Committee citing “debunked conspiracy theories” (MI)

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Reasonable Inference Concerted efforts on behalf of MI officials to dismiss any concerns with the integrity of the 2020 election as “conspiracy theories”. Benson’s letter characterized the committee’s activities as allowing a witness to “spout false and baseless accusations against Michigan public servants — including more than 1,600 election clerks and tens of thousands of

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Narrative Control of the Antrim County Tabulation Failure (MI)

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Established Fact After Antrim County reported a confirmed mis-tabulation that temporarily flipped a historically Republican county to Biden, state officials, working within the CISA/EIP information-control architecture, pressed platforms to treat discussion of the Antrim incident as “conspiracy theory” or “misinformation.” EIP records show that posts by the sitting President, as well as Michigan-based election-integrity content

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MI AG Election Law Guidance to Law Enforcement Focused Upon Poll Challenger Restrictions to Exclusion of Poll Challenger Rights (MI)

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Reasonable Inference How the Attorney General’s own law-enforcement guidance treated poll challenger rights — the near-total 2020 silence on challenger rights, contrasted with the restriction-heavy challenger section of the 2024 guidance letter.   The threshold fact: there was no 2020 AG challenger guidance Analyzing what the Attorney General told law enforcement about poll challengers in

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Michigan AG Dana Nessel Directed Investigations Targeting Private Citizens for Public Speech About Sworn Election Testimony – Viewpoint-Based Criminal Investigation Under Color of Law (MI)

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Established Fact [Established Fact – As to investigations being opened] Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel, acting in her official capacity and in coordination with the Michigan State Police, launched investigations between November 2020 and July 2021 targeting private citizens who had spoken publicly about election irregularities – specifically including individuals who had submitted sworn affidavits

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Secretary Benson Knowingly False Public Statement Regarding Window Obstruction at TCF (MI)

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Disputed Fact [Disputed Fact – As to whether knowingly false] Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson publicly stated on radio that the window obstruction at the TCF Center was done by police because challengers were “breaking the windows.” This statement was demonstrably false: the pizza boxes and cardboard were placed on the inside of the

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