You’ve got to hand it to her; no one in America has worked harder than Michigan’s Democrat Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson to earn the title of the nation’s dirtiest election official.
On September 22, 2024, we warned of a shocking plan by Democrats to steal the upcoming general election.
In the 2000 presidential election, a mere 629 votes separated the race between George W. Bush and Al Gore in Florida. When the absentee overseas votes finally arrived, George W. Bush was able to take the 537-vote lead from Al Gore and win the presidency.
On August 12, 2024, the DNC released a memo announcing that it would spend six figures to collect up to 9 million Democratic votes from overseas.
The DNC’s stated goal of winning the votes of approximately 9 million Americans through its Democrats Abroad website seems impossible, given that, according to a recent report by the federal government, only 4.4 million US citizens reside overseas, and only 2.8 million of those are of voting age.
Watch this stunning montage of Democrats working with their allies in the media to push for millions of NON-EXISTENT overseas “voters” to miraculously cast millions of votes in the 2024 election.
Despite the fact that military members only make up a small fraction of all UOCAVA voters, Democrats and the media continue to identify all UOCAVA voters as “military voters” as a way to gaslight the general public into believing that Republicans who want to secure the UOCAVA voting system are trying to disenfranchise military voters.
THIS is how they CHEAT!!! @HarmeetKDhillon
According to a report by the fed government, only 4.4 million US citizens reside overseas, & only 2.8 million of those are of voting age.
Why are Democrats LYING about those numbers & why doesn’t the fed gov make (UOCAVA)… pic.twitter.com/vxP0U8PFcq
— PattyMI (@PattyLovesTruth) September 1, 2025
Did you know that the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act (UOCAVA) permits online voter registration without requiring verification of identity or citizenship status?
U.S. citizens in the USA who would like to register to vote must share the last four digits of their Social Security number and/or provide a driver’s license or state-issued ID.
UOCAVA voters, however, can bypass the requirement to share the last four digits of their Social Security number and/or provide a driver’s license or state-issued ID.
The screenshot below shows how the Democratic Party’s “Vote from Abroad” website, like the federal government’s website, registers UOCAVA voters to vote in US elections. If the user doesn’t have a social security number, the site allows users to bypass the ID portion of the online registration process.
On August 22, Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, without any legislative approval (which is required by law), announced a plot to allow military and NON-military voters to vote ONLINE. If Benson’s unilateral directive were to be implemented, it would forever destroy the integrity of Michigan’s elections.
In her memo to the public and to Michigan clerks, SOS Benson does what Democrats have brilliantly done for decades: they turn the “voters” they use to accomplish voter fraud into “victims. In this case, the “victims” are non-military overseas voters who don’t even need to prove their identity to vote in U.S. elections.
Even though general election dates are readily available for the next 50 years online, Jocelyn Benson argues that her decision to allow UOCAVA voters to vote online is to help with “the potential for increased delays in ballot tabulation.”
If Michigan voters don’t receive their absentee ballot in the mail or drop box by the deadline, their vote will not count. Why should UOCAVA voters get privileges that permanent Michigan residents don’t?
Her public memo reads:
The Michigan Department of State is pleased to announce the launch of a new online option to better serve the needs of military and overseas voters. The new system will launch publicly on Monday, Sept. 15, 2025.
Developed in line with the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act(UOCAVA), the Electronic Delivery and Return Portal (EDARP) delivers ballots electronically to eligible voters and allows eligible overseas active military members the option to conveniently mark and return an absentee ballot to their clerk’s office electronically through a secure online portal.
Previously, Michigan’s military voters stationed away from home, including overseas, received their ballot electronically but were only permitted to return the ballot by mail, creating the potential for increased delays in ballot tabulation.
Registered overseas voters who maintain a permanent residence in Michigan may also access the portal to view and print their ballots to complete and mail to their local clerk. The new portal will be accessible through Michigan’s MILogin system, a single sign-on platform run by the State of Michigan’s Department of Technology, Management, and Budget (DTMB) that provides secure online access to various state services and applications.
ONLINE VOTING FOR MILITARY MEMBERS WAS ALREADY PROPOSED ONCE IN THE MICHIGAN LEGISLATURE, AND IT FAILED.
In 2019, Michigan lawmakers attempted to pass SB 117, which would have allowed active–duty service members who are absent from the residence where they are registered to vote on Election Day to return an electronic ballot using a U.S. military-issued electronic email address.
The bill was never passed and signed into law, yet here we are, six years later, with MI SOS and Democratic gubernatorial candidate Jocelyn Benson, making up her own laws without the help of the Michigan legislature.
The July 2024 official Michigan Elections Manual clearly states that all UOCAVA ballots MUST be returned by MAIL:
Chapter 7: Military and Overseas Voters, Federal Voter Registration and Absent Voting Programs
No matter how the UOCAVA voter receives their absent voter ballot, the voter must return their ballot by mail. If a UOCAVA voter was emailed their ballot, the voter must print the ballot, complete the ballot, and mail the completed ballot back to the clerk.
Benson appears to be following the lead of fellow dirty Democrat Secretary of State Adrian Fontes of Arizona when she issued her memo to announce her unilateral decision to allow online voting for UOCAVA voters. I have confirmed with the MI Secretary of State’s office that her memo does, in fact, include military and non-military voters.
On August 8, Arizona’s equally deplorable Democrat Secretary of State Adrian Fontes announced in a press release that he was unveiling a pilot program that would allow overseas voters to vote online from the swing state of Arizona.
Arizona Launches Upgraded UOCAVA Voting System to Ensure Secure, Anonymous Ballots for Military and Overseas Voters
The Arizona Secretary of State’s Office has officially launched a new, secure voting system for military and overseas voters under the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act.
The state is piloting the program with the counties sending ballots to UOCAVA voters for the Special General Election for Congressional District 7.
This partnership with Enhanced Voting marks a major milestone in the state’s two-decade effort to modernize and enhance ballot access for military and civilian voters serving or living abroad.
While Enhanced Voting and AZ SOS Fontes claim online voting is a way to “modernize” our elections, election integrity experts would describe it as the easiest way to steal elections without a trace.
In a 2021 letter to members of Congress, 31 top election integrity experts and groups from across the nation warned about the danger of voting online, in an effort to stop a Defense Department policy bill that would include funding for online voting. In their letter, the election experts claim that online voting is “not safe or secure, and will undermine confidence and trust in elections.”
Most of the 31 signers of the letter warning the government not to fund online voting are left-leaning. “Project Democracy,” one of the groups that signed the letter, was formed after the 2016 election by a group of Obama administration lawyers. “Common Cause,” another group that signed the letter, is a Washington D.C.-based progressive organization.
Here are just a few of the warnings:
Online voting in governmental elections has been “rejected as unacceptably insecure” by the FBI, the Department of Homeland Security, the National Institute for Science and Technology, the Senate Intelligence Committee, and the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine, the letter states.
Even with security tools such as end-to-end verification, encryption, cloud-based services, and blockchain, mobile voting faces high security risks, experts warn.
One of the basic problems with mobile voting is that it relies on the internet, which is fundamentally insecure, said Susan Greenhalgh, senior advisor on election security at Free Speech for People, one of the groups that signed the letter.
“That’s why even banks that have billions of dollars to spend on their security budgets still end up getting hacked,” she said. “[Banks] have much greater resources than our election administrators do, so that is evidence and speaks to the fact that when the internet was developed, it wasn’t developed for security, it was developed for accessibility.”
Another major concern with mobile voting is privacy violations. While personal identity is a core component of banking security, the opposite is true for voting. There is no mechanism to report and correct online voting errors without revealing the voter’s identity and breaching the secret ballot.
Authenticating a voter’s identity over the internet is also difficult. And because voters would use their own devices to cast a ballot online, it’s essentially impossible to guarantee no malware or other vulnerabilities exist, even if election officials have security measures built in on their end.
“It’s not just that [military service members’] ballots could be compromised, it’s that the election will be compromised. The democracy that they are there to protect can be compromised, and it introduces doubt,” Goodman added.
Because the government has not yet found a way to develop standards to make online voting secure, there’s no federal certification for online voting vendors, leaving these companies “completely unregulated,” Greenhalgh said.
This had led to vendors “pitching their systems to state and local officials with potentially false, misleading and/or deceptive marketing claims,” Greenhalgh wrote in a June report produced by Free Speech for People.
“This is a problem in that we have this unregulated market and the vendors can say what they want to say and there’s very little repercussion,” Greenhalgh said.
So, how do we know these so-called UOCAVA voters are real people?
How do we know their identities aren’t being made up in some boiler room in Pakistan, and potentially tens of thousands (or more) voters are being added to Michigan’s voter rolls by using made-up names and addresses of vacant homes or apartments in some of Detroit’s worst neighborhoods?
Would anyone in these neighborhoods even notice that a large number of fake “voters” are registered to vote across the street, or that the alleged immediate family members that the dozens of UOCAVA voters are allegedly tied to ever lived there?
Last week, we published a bombshell report based on our investigation into a coffee house in Detroit, in one of the city’s most dangerous neighborhoods.
Our report revealed that 31 registered voters with Hebrew names registered to vote at a coffee shop located at 12041 Dexter Ave., Detroit, while public records indicate that the space above the coffee shop is listed as “vacant.”
According to the NCOA, none of the 31 registered voters at the Dexter address have received any mail; the only mail being delivered to the coffee shop is to the owner, who refused to return our message when we inquired about the 31 residents living at her small coffee shop in Detroit. 
But here’s where it gets even more outrageous—EVERY SINGLE one of the 13 registered voters that used Israeli addresses to register to vote (3 of whom cast votes in the 2024 election), has ALL now flipped to “Permanent Absentee Voter” “Non-UOCAVA” voter status in the state of Michigan, yet their Israeli addresses remain on the voter rolls.
All but one of the 18 registered voters registered at the Detroit coffee shop address lists their sex as “U” or Unidentified.
The final “coincidence” with the “registered voters” at the Detroit coffee shop is that all 3 of the votes cast from this address are from individuals who registered to vote on the exact same day, Oct. 31, 2024, only days before the November 2024 election.
We were curious about the 13 registered voters with Israeli addresses, so we asked a friend with an intelligence background to knock on the doors of the so-called “Michigan voters” while he was in Israel for an extended period of time. We were stunned to discover that after knocking on their doors, NONE of the individuals could be found at the addresses used to register them to vote.
Here’s where it gets even more outrageous — EVERY SINGLE one of the 13 registered voters that used Israeli addresses to register to vote (3 of whom cast votes in the 2024 election), have ALL now flipped to “Permanent Absentee Voter” “Non-UOCAVA” voter status in the state of Michigan, yet their Israeli addresses remain on the voter rolls.
Federal UOCAVA law states that non-military overseas voters MUST re-register to vote each election year.
In order for these 13 so-called voters to become permanent absentee voters, they would have had to all move back to the coffee shop and re-register to vote as permanent absentee voters in Michigan, but since their Israeli addresses appear on the voter rolls and there are no updates to their Israeli mailing addresses, it doesn’t appear they ever re-registered.
So, how did these 13 registered voters suddenly go from having mailing addresses in Israel to becoming “permanent absentee voters” in Michigan?
Do we really want to make it even easier for these alleged non-military UOCAVA voters to vote in our elections?
The former Southern Poverty Law Center board member and George Soros-funded SOS candidate, Jocelyn Benson, who is currently running to become the Democratic Party’s nominee for Michigan governor in 2028, has been sued at least 69 times and has lost 5 of the cases filed against her.
The plaintiffs include State Representative Steve Carra, who wrote about the dishonest secretary of state called “True Jocelyn: The Purposeful Fraudster.”
Benson has also been sued by a county clerk and two township clerks, the RNC, the Michigan GOP, Michigan Fair Elections, and several voter integrity organizations.
Thanks to several rulings by judges appointed by Joe Biden or Barack Obama, many of the cases were thrown out of court, either for lack of standing or because the partisan judges ruled in favor of fellow Democrat Jocelyn Benson, despite overwhelming evidence that could’ve stopped her from corrupting Michigan’s elections.
This wasn’t the first time Michigan’s lawless Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson defied the rules. In the heat of the 2020 election, Benson ordered clerks to ignore signature verification on absentee ballots—gutting the most basic safeguard against fraud and opening the floodgates for abuse.
A court case was filed against Benson, and ultimately, a Michigan judge ruled against her unlawful “guidance” that instructed clerks to count ballots without verifying the voter’s identity. This ruling confirmed that Benson’s directive to clerks was neither legal nor enforceable.
Although Jocelyn Benson has already lost 6 lawsuits to date, she continues to mock those who attempt to force her to follow the law and immediately secure Michigan’s elections.
Shouldn’t a state’s top election official make it his or her responsibility to ensure that every election official implements basic requirements like voter identification, verification of US citizenship, and signature and address verification?
Don’t Michigan voters deserve the right to feel comfortable knowing that dead voters are still listed as active voters on the voter rolls, outside, third-party groups are not attempting to register dogs, US Postal workers aren’t dropping off stacks of ballots in drop boxes in strict violation of the USPS rules, there are not more registered voters than eligible voters in 53 counties in the state of MI, election officials or workers are not manipulating voter rolls, and that eligible voters are allowed to vote ONCE in our elections?
Why would any Secretary of State fight to stop those safeguards from being implemented?
On October 9, the MIGOP and RNC filed a lawsuit against Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson and Jonathan Brater, Director of the MI Bureau of Elections that simply asked for the two top election officials to follow the MI Constitution and verify that ONLY Michigan residents can vote in our elections from overseas:
The Michigan Constitution allows Michigan residents—and only Michigan residents—to vote. See Const. 1963, art. 2, § 1 (“Every citizen of the United States who has attained the age of 21 years, who has resided in this state six months, and who meets the requirements of local residence provided by law, shall be an elector and qualified to vote in any election except as otherwise provided in this constitution. The legislature shall define residence for voting purposes.”)
On October 21, Judge Sima Patel, an appointee of Democratic Governor Whitmer, dismissed the lawsuit filed by the MIGOP and RNC.
The Michigan judge said the lawsuit was an attempt to “disenfranchise” voters.
Curiously, the judge never mentioned the millions of MI voters, including those serving in our US military, whose votes are at risk of being canceled out by an unchecked system of voting only available to overseas, non-military voters, who potentially have the ability to change the outcome of the elections in Michigan.
MI SOS Jocelyn Benson took to “X” to boast about the judge’s decision while, at the same time, misleading Michigan voters into believing the lawsuit had anything to do with “military voters” in a post on “X.”
She wrote: “A win for voters and democracy today in Michigan!” adding, “A federal court upheld our work to ensure military service members and their families serving overseas can vote, rejecting the RNC lawsuit as an “11th hour attempt to disenfranchise these electors.”
I responded to her dishonest propaganda tweet with a chart showing the large disparity in numbers between overseas non-military compared to military members and their families.
MOST of the UOCAVA voters are not US military or family members.
The lawsuit was not aimed at US military members, as they DEFINITELY provide ID & are legitimate residents of the state where they vote.
You are not telling the truth Jocelyn Michelle Benson. pic.twitter.com/f2RwU6Unjk
— PattyMI (@PattyLovesTruth) October 22, 2024
The RNC and MIGOP case against SOS Benson and Director of Elections Jonathan Brater was appealed to the Michigan Court of Appeals, where all 3 judges who heard and denied the case were also appointed by Democrat Governor Gretchen Whitmer.
The plaintiffs appealed the dismissal. On August 6, 2025, the Michigan Court of Appeals affirmed the lower court’s dismissal. The appellate court unanimously agreed that:
- The lawsuit was filed too late—absentee ballots were already cast—and thus judicial intervention at that stage was inappropriate.
- The court did not evaluate the substance of the guidance, instead affirming on procedural grounds: the timeliness of the suit and lack of practicable relief with the election near completion
At least two lawsuits against Jocelyn Benson are still ongoing, the first of which is a lawsuit by a private citizen, Scott Aughney, related to a FOIA obstruction allegation, and the second is by the MI House, over a House subpoena dispute, where MI SOS Jocelyn Benson is refusing to provide the state lawmakers with election training materials, including access to the e-learning portal.
On July 21, 2025, the Civil Rights Division of the DOJ sent a formal letter to MI SOS Jocelyn Benson demanding that she provide them with a statewide voter registration list, detailed procedures for maintening the voter rolls and federal law (NVRA and HAVA) information about how ineligible voters were identified and removed, the identity of the election officials resposible for these processes, Michigan’s responses to the 2024 Election Administration and Voting Survey responses and clarification regarding duplicate voter IDs in the MI QVF or Qualified Voter File. Benson refused to comply.
On August 18, 2025, a SECOND request (follow-up) was made by the Civil Rights Division of the DOJ with a deadline of August 18.
The arrogant and lawless Michigan Secretary of State, Jocelyn Benson, has refused to abide by both deadlines set by the US Department of Justice and provide the requested information.
It is unclear what the next steps are for the DOJ to obtain information that many believe is critical if Benson wants Michigan citizens to trust the voter rolls, which are, without question, corrupted.
Will justice finally be served for MI SOS Benson, or will she continue to manage Michigan’s dishonest elections?
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