MFEI News & Commentary Articles

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.

A hearing to consider dramatic changes to how state elections are conducted and administered is being held in Lansing on Friday, September 5.   Beginning at 9:30 a.m., Michiganders are allowed to make public comment on 12 administrative rules (R 168.251-168.262) that would impact Michigan election administration.

A Chicago-based forum of business and government sector experts is releasing a 37-nation study that finds the United States has the worst voting systems in the world.

The Michigan Fair Elections Institute (MFEI) today announced the release of its comprehensive report, Ranked Choice Voting: A Threat to Our Electoral Process, examining ranked-choice voting (RCV) and its implications for Michigan's electoral system. The report comes as Rank MI Vote launches a petition drive for a 2026 constitutional amendment implementing ranked-choice voting.

For more than seven months, voters in District 35 have had no representation in the state Senate. Seven citizens from the district filed a lawsuit August 10, demanding the Governor of Michigan perform her constitutional duty and fill the vacancy.

Two candidates have thrown their hats into the ring for Michigan secretary of state. Here's what you need to know.

In a landmark decision for election integrity, the Michigan Supreme Court ruled the Michigan Republican Party and the Republican National Committee (RNC) have standing to sue Flint officials for failing to appoint an equal number of Republican election inspectors during the 2022 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.

LANSING, Mich. (June 28, 2025) — Michigan’s Board of State Canvassers unanimously approved petition summary language for a constitutional amendment which would enshrine ranked choice voting (RCV) as the state’s required system of voting.

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.

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

MFEI’s Communications Team brings you links to election news that you won’t want to miss.

If you're not sure how ranked choice voting works watch our tutorial!  In less than five minutes, Jacky Eubanks, MFEI's director of field operations, uses a mock election to help people understand how Ranked Choice Voting works.