MFEI News & Commentary Articles

A voter notified her township clerk she had moved out of state and wished to be removed from the Michigan voter rolls. The clerk canceled the voter's registration. Volunteers monitoring the voter rolls discovered the Bureau of Elections had put the voter back on the rolls as "challenged" not "canceled."

Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson’s Department of State has instructed Michigan’s county clerks to withhold some of the election data Michigan Fair Elections Institute (MFEI) requested under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), escalating concerns over election transparency.

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.

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.