A pair of Michigan bills creating a persistent, always-on identity layer baked into every operating system of every device in Michigan -- with no privacy protections -- are dead in the water thanks to grassroots watchdogs!

President Donald Trump signed his second executive order on elections. The order takes aim at the absence of a systematic mechanism to verify that only citizens receive ballots, and the lack of a uniform, auditable framework governing mail-in and absentee ballot delivery through the U.S. Postal Service.

A Michigan court has just ordered 37 absentee ballots to be processed toward counting in Hamtramck’s disputed 2025 mayoral race. The ruling sounds reasonable on the surface. Voters shouldn’t be punished for election officials’ mistakes, right?

MFEI is forming an independent commission to investigate software company Civera, which provides election-related data tools to government agencies and the public.

Michigan is the only state in the nation that allows the creation of regulations without any independent oversight. Recently passed rules governing state elections violate federal law.