If Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson gets her way, she will not be removing deceased registrants from her state’s voter rolls anytime soon. Even when a court ordered her to do so, she challenged it.
In August, a U.S. District Court denied Benson’s attempt to dismiss a lawsuit, filed by the Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF), a conservative law firm committed to election integrity, that would force her to clean Michigan’s voter lists by removing residents who are deceased or no longer live in the state. In the fall of 2020, the group notified Benson of deceased registrants it found on Michigan’s voter lists and her obligation to remove them under the National Voter Registration Act, which requires states to make “a reasonable
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