BREAKING NEWS!!! Benson Proposing Radical Rule Changes for MI Elections
- Sep 3
- 2 min read
From voter roll restrictions to voters overseas – MI elections won’t be free
By Kristine Christlieb, MFEI News & Commentary Editor
September 3, 2025
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 in the following ways:
Label effective research tools like Ancestry.com, Findagrave.com, and CheckMyVote.org as “unreliable sources” of information for voter roll clean-up purposes
Require expensive and time-consuming standards such as notarized affidavits for EACH challenged voter registration and certified mail requirements on other actions.
Expand preferential treatment for overseas military personnel to all overseas voters, 83% of whom are non-military.
Diminishes clerk efficiency requiring a two-year “waiting period” to implement certain changes vs the faster 30-day challenge timeline.
Creates broadly-written anti-harassment provisions with the potential to label any systematic challenge effort as “harassment.”
"These rules handcuff the clerks and create a bureaucratic quagmire," says MFEI Founder and Chair Patrice Johnson.
In an email statement, Patrice Johnson, founder and chair of Michigan Fair Elections Institute, wrote, “These rules will be devastating to citizen and clerk input to clean the voter rolls. The SOS rule changes are a direct assault on citizen-monitored databases like CheckMyVote.org and citizen voter roll challenges.”
Johnson went on to say, “These rules handcuff the clerks and create a bureaucratic quagmire — all while extending the SOS’s overreach. While framed as ‘standardization,’ these rules create significant barriers to legitimate citizen oversight of voter rolls and petitions.”
Public Hearing: September 5, 2025, 9:30 a.m. Room 1100, Binsfeld Office Building 201 Townsend St., Lansing Written Comment: Elections-PublicComment@Michigan.gov. 5:00 p.m. Sept. 5 DEADLINE |
As a native Michigander, I was glad I left that state in 91, this is a corrupt state, the municipalities are the most corrupt, and the democrat politicians and their followers are among the dumbest people on earth. I love Carolina much more, where I have resided for the last 32 years. I only wish the republican party here had more backbone, kind of squishy.
The stupid people in Michigan voted to amend the constitution so the democrats could do all of this BS. Good Job dummies!