Michigan Secretary of State sued for allegedly leaving 25k dead registrants on Voter Rolls

Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson is being sued for allegedly leaving 25k dead registrants on voter rolls.

The Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF) filed a lawsuit against Benson this Wednesday.

The groups writes “The Foundation has spent many thousands of dollars reviewing Michigan’s election procedures and documented failures to maintain an accurate and correct voter roll as required by the NVRA [National Voter Registration Act of 1993]. Defendant’s unlawful list maintenance program has forced the Foundation to incur substantial costs comparing Michigan’s voter rolls to the Social Security Death Index, various commercial databases, and other sources in order to identify deceased registrants.”

Per Breitbart, as of August 2021, there were more than 25,975 deceased registrants on Michigan’s voter rolls. Of those 25,975:

23,663 registrants have dead for five years or more
17,479 registrants have been dead for at least a decade
3,956 registrants have been dead for at least 20 years

The firm says “For example, the Foundation discovered one registrant who, if alive today, would be 100 years old. She died over two decades ago but remains an active voter on Michigan’s voter rolls. The Foundation even found her obituary from the Detroit Free Press,”