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MFEI News & Commentary Articles


Coordinated Lawfare: How Norm Eisen's Network Targeted Michigan's 2020 Election Questioners
FOIAed documents reveal Norm Eisen's tactics to neutralize and smear MI citizens who dare to question election results.
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4 days ago3 min read


The Man Who Bought Dominion
Scott Leiendecker, whose newly formed company, Liberty Vote, recently purchased Dominion Voting Systems, can't catch a break from activists on either end of the election integrity spectrum. Find out more about him!
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Oct 275 min read


Ones to Watch ... What We Know about the Candidates for MI Secretary of State
Two candidates have thrown their hats into the ring for Michigan secretary of state. Here's what you need to know.
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Aug 44 min read


What New York City’s Mayoral Primary Reveals about Ranked Choice Voting
The late June victory of socialist and Shia Muslim Zohran Mamdani in the city’s Democratic primary has a lot of political observers saying ranked choice voting (RCV) was a big success and crucial to pushing the candidate across the finish line to win. However, a deeper dive into the numbers and processes reveals some contrary information.
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Jul 215 min read


New MI House Election Integrity Committee Gets Serious about Elections
The 2025 session of the 103rd Michigan Legislature opened with new Republican legislators heading up every House committee and resetting the House agenda. Nowhere was that shift more prominent than in Representative Rachelle Smit’s Election Integrity Committee.
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Jul 24 min read


Heritage Foundation and MIT Assessments of Election Administration Fall Short
Recently, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the Heritage Foundation released dueling scorecards evaluating the perceived effectiveness and fairness of each state’s election laws, processes, and overall infrastructure. Rather than observing relative harmony, readers will find significant divergence between the two models.
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Jun 245 min read


Xiong Sings Benson’s Favorite Song (WATCH!)
March 22, 2024, MI SOS Benson announced Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Election Data and Science Lab ranked Michigan’s administration of the 2022 midterm elections 2nd in the nation.
Praising the MIT experts’ ranking has become one of Benson’s favorite songs, and now MI Rep. Mai Xiong, is joining in. At the recent MI House Election Integrity Committee hearing, Rep. Xiong chimed in with a question for election data expert Braden Giacobazzi that set her up to invoke
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Jun 185 min read


SCOTUS Decides to Hear Election Case--Thanks to Amicus Briefs from MFEI and Others
In a significant victory for election integrity advocates, the U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to review a lower court’s decision on federal candidate standing and the counting of mail-in ballots after Election Day. The case, led by Congressman Mike Bost (R-IL) and two presidential electors, challenges an Illinois law permitting mail-in ballots to be counted up to 14 days after Election Day, even without a postmark. Michigan has a similar law as well, going so far as to waive p
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Jun 97 min read


Three/For/Three on 05/28/25
Three quick read headline stories for midweek. Today's 3: What’s next after Benson contempt vote?, Benson’s Responses Analyzed, Aghogho’s Got Competition.
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May 285 min read


Michigan Misdirection Highlights Democrat Boldness and Resolve to Winning
Captain Seth Keshel substack reprint, Michigan Misdirection Highlights.
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May 203 min read


Benson Book Tour: The Purposeful Warrior or Serial Lawbreaker?
Democrat Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson is promoting her new book, The Purposeful Warrior: Standing Up for What’s Right When the Stakes Are High, with a seven-city book tour beginning in Detroit on May 7 and ending in Washington, D.C., on June 22.
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May 56 min read


Trump’s National Security Emergency Investigation Into Election Fraud Is Ongoing
With Tulsi Gabbard’s announcement last Friday that an ongoing intelligence agency investigation has evidence that election computers are vulnerable to cyberattack hackers, President Trump’s actions suggest he is moving quickly to declare an election fraud national security emergency.
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Apr 228 min read


Our Voices Were Heard: President Trump’s Executive Order 14248 and the Future of the Election Integrity Movement
On March 25, 2025, President Donald J. Trump signed Executive Order 14248, his 116th executive order since taking office and one of his most significant. For election integrity advocates, including organizations like Michigan Fair Elections Institute (MFEI), EO 14248 was a landmark victory. The comprehensive document reads like a wish list of conservative election integrity measures, years in the making, lifting a heavy burden from the shoulders of those who fought for reform
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Apr 216 min read


MI GOP U.S. House Members Get Fired Up Defending Citizen-Only Voting
The week of April 3-10 Michigan’s Republican U. S. House of Representatives delegation rose up in an historic display of unity, taking two decisive actions in support of citizens-only voting.
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Apr 155 min read


The Silent Takeover: How Local Politicians Use Appointments to Advance Their Agendas
A troubling trend is emerging in MI communities - filling local governing board vacancies by appointment rather than special election.
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Mar 186 min read


Encouragement from the Front Lines
It’s easy to initiate a rallying cry to a cause, It’s easy to make an appearance. But it’s hard to keep going when the sparkle has worn off.
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Mar 54 min read


Election Integrity’s Candy Land© Climb to Fair Elections
For election integrity workers, the “peak of the mountain,” the ultimate goal, is safe, secure, transparent elections with no interference.
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Feb 255 min read


S.O.S. To Kash Patel: Aggressive Investigation of 2020 Muskegon Voter Registration Dump Could Yield a Game-Changing Double Play for Election Integrity
Lawyers say Muskegon, Michigan Election Fraud Scandal Could Allow DOJ to Unpack 2020 Voter Fraud
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Feb 193 min read


Grover Cleveland and Donald Trump, Twins Separated by a Century
Presidents Donald Trump and Grover Cleveland share many similarities, including the political circumstances under which they were elected.
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Feb 175 min read


Dead Woman Walking … and Voting. How volunteers are helping clean up Michigan voter rolls
A MFEI volunteer examined the QVF and discovered a person who passed away in 2019 managed to vote in person in MI's Nov. 2022 election.
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Feb 104 min read
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