Far-right election clerk caught illegally purging voter rolls: report

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Raw Story

April 15, 2026 6:33PM ET


An election clerk in a far-right Michigan county has been purging voter rolls without authorization, Votebeat reported on Tuesday. According to the report, the Michigan Bureau of Elections "sent a letter to Antrim County Clerk Victoria Bishop on Tuesday saying it had received information suggesting she had made voter registration changes 'that fall outside the scope of your statutory authority and fail to comply with the law.'"

Bishop allegedly sent confirmation and cancelation notices to voters who had not participated in the last two elections, per the report — despite the fact, the letter noted, that “Michigan law is explicit that a clerk may not cancel, or cause the cancellation of, a voter’s registration solely because a voter has missed one or two elections.” She then altered the statuses of these voters in the Qualified Voter File, “without any agreement or delegation of authority allowing you to do so from the affected local jurisdiction.”

Bishop is a Republican who was first elected in 2024, and has ties to the Stop the Steal conspiracy theory movement that believes President Donald Trump was cheated out of winning in 2020.

"Angela Benander, a spokesperson for the Michigan Department of State, said that the bureau began looking into Bishop’s actions after receiving 'reports about concerning activity' from voters and local clerks alike," said the report. "From there, state officials looked at the QVF and found enough irregularities to prompt the requests to Bishop.". This is the latest in a series of improper actions taken by local pro-Trump officials to try to prove election rigging.

Read more: https://www.rawstory.com/michigan-gop-2676748877/

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Link to VOTEBEAT Michigan REPORT - Antrim County clerk allegedly changed, canceled voter registrations, state says

[Chasstev365]

1. The state of Michigan should charge her NOW as warning ahead of the 2026 Mid-terms

[TommyT139]

2. And wouldn't there also be

...grounds for anyone whose voter registration was cancelled to sue her based on deprivation of civil rights?

[Callie1979]

3. And remove her.

[Dr. T]

6. Make this little witch an example

and do it with fanfare for all to see. Nail her to a cross then burn the cross. I hope this ruins her life.

[Chasstev365]

9. The arrogance that she thinks she has the power remove citizens from voting.

[Attilatheblond]

26. Pretty sure this is why Trump wants all the voter info, so his flunkies can instruct county officials who to purge

Living in a county where 2 of 3 County Supervisors refused their lawful duty to certify an election*, I trust officials in smaller counties without real journalists as far as I could throw them. It is SO easy for GOP operatives to convince a lot of 'officials' to do illegal things as a means to get attention from 'the big guys' further up the food chain.

Smaller counties don't generally have big talent pools from which to get knowledgeable officials. When laws get broken, justice is easy to evade.

If not for Marc Elias, voters in our county would have been totally disenfranchised due to 2 GOP Supervisors who dragged their feet and missed the deadline for certification.

Watch your local officials! Go to county meetings if you can. Check to see if citizens can attend, AND COMMENT, via ZOOM. And never ignore the down ballot offices when you vote. Those local officials are easily swayed, manipulated, even hood-whinked by party operatives. There are reasons Trump wants access to voter records. His flunkies need to know who to have local officials to purge.

*One of those clowns plead quilty to a lesser charge and got out of office. The other is STILL fighting being tried years after his indictment. That man has more excuses to delay that any judge should put up with. Sick, had to have a hernia operation, lawyer had to have a hernia operation.... I fully expect he will need a hysterectomy as the next trial date come us.

[Scrivener7]

27. Yes! Lock her the hell up!

[COL Mustard]

4. What's the old saying???

Oh yeah…LOCK HER UP!!!

[Lonestarblue]

5. Multiply these tactics by the thousands as Republicans see this as a way to stack the deck in their favor.

This woman was caught. How many more will not be?

[Midnight Writer]

19. Exactly. We have to assume this is happening all over.

[Joinfortmill]

7. Not good. Glad she was caught.

[Dr. T]

8. There's a guy in Wisconsin named Harry Wait who

ordered absentee ballots for other people, some were high profile people, then had those ballots delivered to his house just to prove he could.

He was convicted of voter fraud and is awaiting sentencing. He was interviewed by local television and said he'd do it again. No remorse. Jail time is the only way he's going to learn from this.

On the bright side, he proved that the system works and that there are consequences for voter fraud. That's the opposite of what he was trying to prove.

[Bengus81]

10. Purging in a far-right County? If you did that in western Kansas counties 80- 90%

of the purged votes would be Trump voters. Lock her the HELL up or she'll do it again given the chance.

[RetiredParatrooper]

11. Every accusation...

...is a confession with the Reichspartei.

[Sancho]

12. This is happening all over the country...

it is like speeding on the interstate - they all do it. Until there are some arrests and jail sentences, it will continue.

[BumRushDaShow]

13. It started in earnest a month or two after the 2020 election

We had a case here in PA in a dark red county where they initiated a 3rd party "audit" using a company associated with the discredited "Wake TSI" (who infested AZ).

(this is not even counting Ken Blackwell's well-known malfeance in OH going back to 2004 and later, and he eventually managed to get involved in 45's first term)

[Attilatheblond]

28. Check your registration status often, especially as the registration deadline approaches! Please share links!

Make sure you have time to re-register if you get purged

https://www.usa.gov/confirm-voter-registration]

Find and contact your state or local election office for help with registering, voting, and getting election results. https://www.usa.gov/state-election-office]

How to confirm your voter registration status

Check your voter registration online to confirm your voter registration number and if you are still registered. Verify your name, address, political party, and polling place.
How to check if you are registered to vote

Visit Can I Vote and select "voter registration status."

Choose your state. You will be taken to a page on your state's election website.

Check to see if you are registered.

Important
Check your registration information before your state's registration deadline to register to vote. That could be up to 30 days before the election. This gives you time if you need to re-register or make changes.

[bluestarone]

14. Oh Gosh, another election CHEAT! Plus guess what? another

REPUBLICON!!!!! They are the ONLY ones that CHEAT CHEAT CHEAT!!

[James48]

15. A pair of loons.

Her husband is a local radio talk show host 3 hours a day. He’s a nutcase Trumper, running his radio show like a conspiracy theory maniac. He got sued after saying a local businessman hired illegal aluens, and in the court case, disclosed he apparently has failed to file taxes for years, while pocketing advertiser money on his own ago show.

[llmart]

17. And then there is the clerk in Shelby Township...

who was one of the fake electors. I still don't know what ever happened to him. Imagine a township clerk who is in charge of elections not knowing he was doing something criminal. The most the republicans who run that township did to him was remove him from the responsibility of handling elections. Then the criminal's wife runs for office and wins. Some places in Michigan just consistently vote republican despite any criminality.

[Attilatheblond]

29. One of the fake electors in Arizon was a County GOP Chairman at the time he did that crime

They are amazingly arrogant and then whine like orphaned kittens when they get busted for their criminal activity.

[Multichromatic]

16. Arrest Republican Criminals!!!!!!!!

If George Floyd can be instantly killed by police for passing a counterfeit $20.00 bill... can we at least immediately arrest criminals that commit real serious crimes.

Republican criminals almost NEVER get punishment. If the Democrats went on a Republican style crime spree the Republicans would howl and there would be wall to wall news coverage about criminal Democratic thugs. Democrats would be jailed and the Republicans would push to ban the Democratic Party.

I'm sick of reading these stories. Republican commits crime.............. and nothing happened. No consequences, no arrest and, no prison sentence.

[llmart]

18. I think this is why they say all politics is local.

A good percentage of voters don't even bother to vote in local elections such as for clerk or school board. In many ways local issues are equally important.

[paleotn]

22. Isn't that repetative? Republicans and criminals?

Like Abraham and Sodom, good luck finding even 10 Republicans who aren't criminals.

[Norrrm]

20. Voter fraud.... wholesale. It's not just the voting itself.

[Martin68]

21. We all know that the vast majority of election fraud is being committed by MAGAts.

[mitch96]

23. repukes KNOW they can't win without cheating....nt

[Hieronymus Phact]

24. The fact that these people walk around and have teeth is testament to

The proof that there is no big violent leftist movement.

[Attilatheblond]

30. Oh, I am SO bookmarking your incredible observation

Some of my local activist pals will get a kick out of that. Thank you for such succinct wisdom.

[ck4829]

25. Nasty.