Detroit

Partisan NGO’s conducting GOTV operations at USCIS events. (US)

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Established Fact On December 15, 2025 at the federal courthouse in Detroit, MI, partisan organizations such as the League of Women Voters (LWV), Fems for Democracy (affiliated with Dems for Democracy PAC), and Promise for Change were conducting voter registration activities. Such activities place private partisan advocacy organizations in contact with newly naturalized citizens at […]

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Chris Thomas – Former State Elections Director Given Operational Control of Detroit Elections as a Private Consultant (MI)

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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

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CTCL Detroit Grant with Unilateral Claw-Back Authority (MI)

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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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CTCL‑Funded Detroit Satellite Centers and Mobile GOTV Units (MI)

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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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Unmonitored 24/7 Drop Box Network Deployed Without Chain-of-Custody Logs; FOIA Evasion (MI)

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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

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Former State Elections Director Hired as Private CTCL-Funded Advisor to Largest City (MI)

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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

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Privatization of Poll Worker Hiring and Inflation of Compensation Through CTCL Grants (MI)

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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).

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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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Media Dismissal of Sworn Affidavits to Protect Unofficial Results – TCF Center (MI)

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Reasonable Inference Media outlets across Michigan and nationally used unofficial election-night results to establish an expectation of decisive victory, then systematically characterized hundreds of sworn, notarized affidavits from TCF Center poll workers and observers as “baseless,” “unsubstantiated,” or already “debunked.” These affidavits detailed election administration chaos including the boarding of windows to prevent lawful observation,

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RLA Invalidated by Statutory Loopholes and Non-Compliance (MI)

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Established Fact Michigan’s statewide Risk Limiting Audit was structurally compromised: under MCL 168.871, “out-of-balance” precincts are legally ineligible for hand recounts, and this rule was used to exclude roughly 71% of Detroit absentee counting boards from meaningful post-election scrutiny. Additionally, 21 county clerks simply failed to complete the required RLA, rendering the statutory “risk limit”

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