This Isn't Suspicious: MI SOS Requires Deletion of Election Records One Week After Certification

Federal law requires the retention of voting records for 22 months after an election. 

Democrats don't like that. They believe in keeping things tidy by deleting all the evidence ASAP. With BleachBit, if possible. (Anthony Fauci, call your office.)

And there is no set of records they want cleaned up and tidy quite like election records; otherwise, you face the need to fight like hell in court to keep them locked away, as Fulton County did for years until the FBI got a warrant and seized them. And even after that, Fulton County has fought to keep them sealed. 

Nothing to see here, so why look? And, better yet, delete the evidence as soon as possible. Audits are a distraction, you know. 

PICK A CRIME: That's the choice Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson handed my client, a township clerk.

A new state rule Benson made orders my client to DELETE the electronic poll book records of the August 4 primary within 7 days of certification. What’s the problem?… pic.twitter.com/3dLyNMq6ma

— Kevin Kijewski (@KevinKijewski) August 13, 2026

PICK A CRIME: That's the choice Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson handed my client, a township clerk.

A new state rule Benson made orders my client to DELETE the electronic poll book records of the August 4 primary within 7 days of certification. What’s the problem? Federal law orders her to KEEP those same records for 22 months, into 2028.

Delete them? Face up to 1 year of imprisonment under federal law. Refuse? Up to 90 days imprisonment under Michigan law. Every path carries a penalty aimed at my client personally. For trying to follow the law.

My client wrote Jocelyn Benson and the Director of Elections on July 6 and asked one question: how do I obey both? Thirty-seven days. NO ANSWER.

So we asked a judge, while the records still exist. No more waiting around. Declare which law controls. Preserve the voting records.

And the part that should get your attention: the same rule governs the NOVEMBER election.

Read all 156 pages, complaint and exhibits, yourself: http://tinyurl.com/pollbookcase

The one-page fact sheet: http://tinyurl.com/pollbookcasefactsheet

The Michigan rules on the rush deleting of records that cost essentially nothing to retain originate from the 2020 election, when every Democrat in the world suddenly argued (after years of arguing the opposite) that elections were clean, unmarred by mistakes or fraud, and most certainly should not be challenged in any way, shape, or form because doing so makes you a traitor. 

The rule is, in itself, absurd and can be justified only with the help of the Pravda chanting points that everything is fine and that it's best to avoid looking too hard at corrupt election officials. They are public servants with no political axes to grind, even though secretaries of state are elected. How dare you want to see the books? That 175-year-old voter needs her privacy, despite living at a Mail Boxes Etc. 

You may not be a lawyer, but you just walked through the complaint.

Yes: the August 4 ballot carried a U.S. Senate primary and every U.S. House seat, which makes it a federal election and starts the 22-month federal retention duty.

Yes: Count I is the Supremacy Clause. And on…

— Kevin Kijewski (@KevinKijewski) August 13, 2026

Not a lawyer but since there were ballots cast for US Senators, isn’t that considered a federal office? If yes, wouldn’t the federal supremacy clause override what Benson is mandating? They are on the same ballot so you can’t destroy part and keep part. You’d have to keep the whole. 

Or is my thought process far too rational for the liberal hellhole that has become Michigan politics?

You may not be a lawyer, but you just walked through the complaint.

Yes: the August 4 ballot carried a U.S. Senate primary and every U.S. House seat, which makes it a federal election and starts the 22-month federal retention duty.

Yes: Count I is the Supremacy Clause. And on your third point, the complaint alleges the electronic poll book contains records that exist nowhere else, not in the paper book, not in the state's voter file. Delete the file and the federal records go with it.

Which is why the ask is simple: a court decides which command controls, while the records still exist.

And that José Ramirez Sanchez who lives in a hotel that rents by the hour? Sure, he showed up during the Biden administration, but he is a hardworking guy who strengthens our country with his diversity and deserves a shot at having his voice heard. We registered him to vote automatically when he got his driver's license. 

Bigot. Traitor. Putin shill. MAGAt. 

Fraud of any kind is so rare that it doesn't bear mentioning. We interviewed Abdul Mohammed Somaliland, and he assures us his community is nothing but patriots with a strong desire to feed and take care of children, run medical transportation services, and provide home healthcare. 

Salt-of-the-earth American citizens. But they don't want their names to remain on voting poll books, so they support this rule put forth by the Democrat Secretary of State, Jocelyn Benson. She understands.

How, you may wonder, can a secretary of state be allowed to force local election officials to break the law?

It's easy: they are Democrats, and if nobody is above the law, they have changed their names to "Nobody." So they are above the law. 

See?

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