Judge dismisses lawsuit claiming Michigan didn't purge dead voters from election rolls
A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit that alleged Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson had violated federal law by allowing thousands of deceased voters to remain on the voter rolls.
Friday’s decision by U.S. District Court Judge Jane Beckering of the Western District of Michigan rejected as “theoretical” the harms claimed by the Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF), concluding “the record demonstrates that deceased voters are removed from Michigan’s voter rolls on a regular and ongoing basis.”
PILF is a far-right organization that has a record of making false claims about voter fraud in the U.S. The chair of its board is Cleta Mitchell, who participated in the December 2020 phone call on which Trump urged Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to “find” the votes he needed to win the state. A special grand jury in Fulton County, Ga., recommended indicting Mitchell, but she was not charged.
The group filed the lawsuit against Benson, a Democrat, in November 2021 alleging Michigan was violating the National Voter Registration Act (NVRA) by refusing to remove 27,000 individuals from its qualified voter filed (QVF) the group said were dead.
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