MFEI News & Commentary Articles

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.

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.

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.

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

Michigan Fair Elections Institute (MFEI), joining a coalition of four citizen organizations, filed a friend-of-the-court brief with the United States Supreme Court on Wednesday, urging the justices to declare, once and for all, that Election Day is a hard deadline — not an aspirational suggestion.

Finding it hard to keep up with the most urgent election integrity legislation? Here's your cheat sheet.

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.

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.

The major parties' candidates for Secretary of State are chosen at endorsement conventions by party precinct delegates. Republican and Democrat voters have no say in who will represent their parities in this important race. One man is asking for this process to be reexamined.

Winning! Dark money nonprofits that poured millions into Michigan ballot proposals are being forced to reconfigure and rebrand because of recent scrutiny. Arabella dies and reincarnates as Sunflower Services.

In a one-two punch last week, Republicans called for help from the Feds in the 2026 election. They claim Benson cannot be trusted.

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!

Patrice Johnson shows how SOS Benson's risk-limited 2024 audit was indeed fundamentally limited and only scratched the surface of how an election should be audited.

One of MFEI's favorite reporters encourages us to never forget what happened in 2020, especially how COVID changed the conduct of elections.

MFEI is supplying technical assistance to a large-scale investigation of election materials from Detroit’s 2020 election. As reported exclusively by Patty McMurray in The Gateway Pundit, a New Jersey man used the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) to successfully gain access to all election materials (ballots, mail-in ballot applications, poll books) associated with the controversial 2020 election in Detroit.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Stockbridge, MI – September 15, 2025 Michigan Fair Elections Institute (MFEI) is formally submitting opposition to the Michigan Secretary of State’s proposed Rule Set 2025-14 ST to the Joint Committee on Administrative Rules (JCAR), warning that the proposed rules governing pollbooks will undermine election integrity and violate federal and state laws.

MFEI is pleased to reprint (with permission) Seth Keshel’s expert analysis of mail-in ballot impact. The column was originally published on August 29, 2025, at Keshel’s Substack site, CaptK's Corner.