Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson is the state’s chief election officer, with supervisory authority over local election officials. She oversees the statewide voter database (the Qualified Voter File) and issues statewide election instructions, guidance, and can issue administrative rules for election administration—while also actively running for governor in the same 2026 election cycle.
The Midwesterner:
Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson insists Michigan has done “more than any other state” to secure the state’s voter rolls, despite a federal investigation into repeated documented instances of noncitizen voting.
Confronted following Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s final State of the State address on Wednesday, The Midwesterner asked Benson, “Can you assure Michiganders that there are no longer any noncitizens on the voter rolls?”
The Democrat frontrunner for governor dodged and told The Midwesterner she’s “actually done a lot, frankly, more than any other state, to ensure we’re driving down or increasing the security of our voter rolls.”
“So are there any other noncitizens on the voter rolls?” she was asked.
She dodged that, too.
“You can go to our website and see everything we’ve done to ensure the accuracy of our list, and we’ve talked at length about that, as well,” Benson said.
“Certainly, our priority is to make sure we’re consistently working to ensure the accuracy of our rolls, and I’m glad we were recognized as one of the top 10 states in the country doing that,” she said. READ MORE
Democrats cheat huge in Michigan elections. Every election, they get more and more bold about it.