Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson discovered 15 good noncitizens across the express voted in November’s vote — but claims there’s nothing to worry about.
“]T] his illegal activity is quite rare”, Benson claimed in an April 3 media release. ” While we take all violations of election rules very seriously, this small fraction of probable cases in Michigan and at the regional level do not support current efforts to pass laws we know would prevent tens of thousands of Michigan citizens from voting in coming elections”.
Benson recently claimed” there’s no proof that noncitizens are voting”. But after comparing millions of active voter registrations to “active moving information” for voting-age people, the Michigan Department of State found 15 people who “appear to become non-U. S. citizens and cast a ballot in the 2024 General Election” . ,
While one “apparent noncitizen vote has since died” and another event is still being investigated, according to the launch, 13 of these scenarios were sent to Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel for “potential legal fees”. Though when a Detroit-area assistant implored Nessel to take action against widespread election fraud, the attorney general did not reply — while she met with an alleged grifter, as The Federalist originally reported.  ,
Benson’s business minimized the issue of noncitizen citizens, saying they “represent 0.00028 % of the more than 5.7 million votes cast by Michiganders in the political poll”. Never mind that many votes throughout story were decided by only a handful of seats.
When a Taiwanese student at the University of Michigan reportedly cast his vote, he used a student ID when allowed by Benson’s business. But when The Federalist asked her office for” Ann Arbor voter registrations … in which proof of identity was satisfied with a University of Michigan student ID“, a worker said it did” not possess records responsive to]the ] request”. But Benson’s company not only issued advice that enabled noncitizen election with student Card, but seemingly fails to keep a record of those licenses. And while the scholar faces criminal charges, authorities also counted his vote and delayed removing him from the voter rolls.
Benson has been a vocal defender of election integrity in the past. She faced many lawsuits over issues including the country’s greatly inflated voter rolls, last-minute poll worker constraints, and instruction causing” thousands” of improperly processed votes, as The Federalist previously reported. She also refused to tell Congress if dead registrants were still on the rolls.
Benson consistently worked with groups connected to” Zuckbucks“, which flooded leftist nonprofits with millions to boost Democrat turnout in 2020. The National Vote at Home Institute, which often conspired with the Center for Tech and Civic Life to meddle in elections, worked with Benson in 2019 to enable absentee voting without “legislative change”.
The left-wing Center for Election Innovation and Research, alongside CTCL, used millions in” Zuckbucks” to influence elections in 2020. In September that year, the group channeled$ 12 million to the Michigan Center for Election Law and Administration— which Benson led until that February. Her former group then sent$ 11 million to Democrat firms for “nonpartisan voter education”, according to InfluenceWatch. Benson continued to work with CEIR ahead of the November 2024 election.  ,
Benson claimed election integrity requires” a scalpel, not a sledgehammer”. But in the past, she barely even used a butter knife.
Logan Washburn is a staff writer covering election integrity. He is a spring 2025 fellow of The College Fix. He graduated from Hillsdale College, served as Christopher Rufo’s editorial assistant, and has bylines in The Wall Street Journal, The Tennessean, and The Daily Caller. Logan is from Central Oregon but now lives in rural Michigan.
