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Votebeat, an organization that touts its non-partisan reporting credentials, published an article earlier this month panning the Department of Justice’s actions to gather state voter registration data and its push to expedite or enforce maintenance of state voter rolls. Keshel responds.

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.

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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 Michigan district court judge has dismissed felony charges against 15 alternate electors. The two-year legal ordeal ended today for 15 Michigan Republicans charged with eight felony counts primarily centered on forgery.

On Wednesday, September 3, the Tea Party Patriots' Only Citizens Vote bus pulled into Lansing and was greeted by a group of Michigan patriots supporting only American citizens voting. Patrice Johnson, founder and chair of Michigan Fair Elections Institute, offered her remarks to the group.

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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.

Michigan Fair Elections Institute (MFEI) is launching an online publication called the Monthly Qualified Voter File (QVF) Change Report.