MFEI News & Commentary

Michigan Secretary of State and gubernatorial candidate Jocelyn Benson, who spent years as an undercover operative and board member for the Southern Poverty Law Center, faces new scrutiny as the organization announced Tuesday it is under federal criminal investigation by the Department of Justice. The DOJ probe centers on the SPLC's past use of paid confidential informants to infiltrate extremist groups — the same type of work Benson has long touted as the foundation of her p

Yet another rule set coming at us, more SOS control over clerks without legislative authorization. Public hearing on May 22.

Wayne County is in the DOJ's crosshairs with Asst. AG Harmeet Dhillon demanding to examine ballots for the county's 2024 federal election.

MI SOS Jocelyn Benson is using rules and instruction manuals her department wrote to threaten clerks with jail time.

In the 2026 election cycle, 100+ elected offices hang in the balance. Your vote will determine public policy for years to come.

A recent AI breakthrough from Anthropic uncovered operating system vulnerabilities that make the possibility of election hacking even more likely.

Former Adams Township Clerk Stephanie Scott is facing four felony charges and one misdemeanor for performing what she believes was her Constitutional duty as a clerk. Monday’s hearing will determine whether the charges are dropped or whether the matter will proceed to trial.

A pair of Michigan bills creating a persistent, always-on identity layer baked into every operating system of every device in Michigan -- with no privacy protections -- are dead in the water thanks to grassroots watchdogs!

President Donald Trump signed his second executive order on elections. The order takes aim at the absence of a systematic mechanism to verify that only citizens receive ballots, and the lack of a uniform, auditable framework governing mail-in and absentee ballot delivery through the U.S. Postal Service.

A Michigan court has just ordered 37 absentee ballots to be processed toward counting in Hamtramck’s disputed 2025 mayoral race. The ruling sounds reasonable on the surface. Voters shouldn’t be punished for election officials’ mistakes, right?