MFEI News & Commentary Articles

Senate Majority Leader John Thune is calling it a day on the SAVE Amerca Act. The Federalist is calling the act dead.

Democrats are having their own election integrity issues with any voting irregularities in the recent Democrat convention. Calls for audit abound.

SOS Benson's "rules" may violate federal law and delay voter registration roll cleanup. The system of rule making oversight has failed Michiganders and our elections.

Christian values of personal responsibility, hope for the future, and maintaining a healthy check on power come into play every election day. Don't stay home!

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.

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

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?

MFEI is forming an independent commission to investigate software company Civera, which provides election-related data tools to government agencies and the public.

The war in Iran has sidelined, at least temporarily, the SAVE America Act and Make Elections Great Again (MEGA) Act. Best hope is a quick resolution to the conflict then get back on track in the Senate.

Wealthy Americans living abroad are organizing in Paris to fight the SAVE America Act and other voter legislation.

Tim Vetter and the DEEP Team make their top ten recommendations to the Secretary of State candidates for how to clean the voter rolls.

Passing the Save Act is front and center if we want to get back to sane election administration. Trace the root of our problems back to 2018.

Sold out audience picked Amanda Love as the winner of the SOS candidate debate. Macomb County Clerk Anthony Forlini's absence loomed large.

Michigan's Bureau of Elections is redesigning its election data reports, no longer including important information. MFEI is suing the state for the complete data file. The State has asked a judge to dismiss the case, saying it does not have in its possession the requested records.

In response to email remarks from Election Assistance Commission Chairman Don Palmer, Patrick Colbeck has written what amounts to a forensic audit of the entire U.S. election security apparatus.

Preliminary findings from Detroit ballot investigation identify "ghost write-ins." Are the ballots poorly designed? Were first-time users of mail-in ballots confused? Is it fraud? All of the above?

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