Michigan voters, regardless of political party, do NOT want non-citizens voting in their elections.

A defiant Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, refuses to remove NON-citizens from Michigan’s voter rolls. Why?

America’s dirtiest Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson and her right hand man, Bureau of Elections Director Jonathan Brater, have done everything within their power to ensure non-citizens are not only placed on Michigan’s voter rolls, but that once they are on the voter rolls, there is no way to discover them.

Director of BOE MI Jonathan Brater

Last week, on Monday, August 4, hundreds of Michigan residents packed the Michigan Board of Canvassers meeting in Lansing to defend the validity of the Americans for Citizens Only Voting petition which was turned in several months ago with an astounding 709,841 signatures, 59.1% over the threshold of the minimum to make the ballot, which was only 446,198.

ACVM did not sneak this petition in at the last minute. The petitions landed on March 4, 2026 — more than four months before the July 6 filing deadline and eight months before Election Day. The Bureau of Elections sat on those 709,841 signatures for five and a half months. Staff did not release the 1,000-signature sample until July 24. The staff report calling the petition 17 signatures short did not come out until August 17. That is 166 days after the boxes were delivered, and it left the campaign 17 days to fight challenges, chase affidavits, and get in front of the Board of State Canvassers on August 24.

By then the clock was already killing the measure. Ballots have to be locked for the November 3 election. ACVM asked the Michigan Supreme Court to move. When that court sat on the case, the group went to Justice Kavanaugh on August 31 and asked for an order by September 3 — because the Board of State Canvassers meets September 4 to finalize the ballot. Five and a half months of silence, then a two-week scramble to save a proposal that had cleared the first staff count. That is how Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson and her fellow Democrat activists keep a citizenship amendment off the ballot without ever taking a vote on the merits.

The Michigan Board of Canvassers was asked to review the signatures pulled from the “random sampling” that the Board of Elections Director Jonathan Brater’s staff deemed unacceptable because, according to the staff members, the signatures on the petition didn’t match the signatures they had on file. Many audience members could be heard remarking that their signatures have changed over the years, suggesting this was a completely unfair practice. The intense scrutiny given to each signature by the amateur signature sleuths was especially difficult to watch, given that only 6 years ago, Michigan’s top election official, Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, told her clerks to ignore signature matching when accepting absentee ballots and assume the signature matched.

The attorneys working with ACVM were able to obtain 23 affidavits from the sampling of 1,000 that MI Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson’s Board of Elections “staff members” rejected, to prove that the signatures they called into question were indeed, valid signatures. The attornies provided 19 affidavits by the 10 am Saturday deadline and an additional 4 more on Saturday (the time of the delivery is unclear).

Here is the moment the Democrat activists sitting on the MI Board of Elections showed their true colors and rejected an affidavit because they claimed although it arrived on Saturday, it didn’t meet the 10 am procedural deadline. This telling conversation, where both Democrats and Jocelyn Benson’s Director of the Board of Elections all agree with the two Republican members that the signature matched, but they weren’t going to accept it, likely gave the Michigan Supreme Court the ability to rule in favor of the petioners. Because the decision that the signature on the affidavit matched the QVF was unanimous, it could only mean one thing—Jocelyn Benson’s “staff members” wrongly rejected the signature in the first place, since that was where they were supposed to be matching the signature.

Watch the incredible scene unfold here:

The MI Board of Canvassers Meeting Was Like A Scene Taken Out of Atlas Shrugged

For almost 5 hours, Michigan citizens watched smug Democrats disregard legitimate signatures on affidavits filed by voters who were accused by the Michigan Board of Elections of not being legitimate. Two Republican and two Democrats sitting on the Michigan Board of Canvassers, who have no expertise whatsoever to analyze and determine whether or not a signature is a match with the voter’s signature, discounted signatures verified by a notary public with shocking arrogance and smugness.

As a reporter who was covering the hearing, it was difficult to watch the serious issue of voters being disenfranchised by a handful of far-left, mostly ACLU lawyers in what appeared to be a well-oiled machine that included Michigan Bureau of Elections Director Jonathan Brater, who appeared passively at the table, but in fact, is the person overseeing the “staff” who rejected the signatures in the first place.

Watch Democrat Board of Canvassers member Heather Cummings snap at a member of the audience for giving here “menacing look” after she just rejected another signature she agreed was a match to the QVF. It was received on Saturday, but because it wasn’t received by “the deadline” at 10 am, she and her counterpart, Ms. Gurewitz, rejected the signature verified by a notary.

On August 26, in a post on “X,” the Michigan Republican-led House announced that they would be holding a hearing to investigate the Michigan Board of Elections decision on the American Citizens Voting Michigan petition.

BREAKING: House Republicans form select committee to look into Board of Canvassers processes after the recent decision to block the election integrity initiative🚨

709,841 Michiganders signed onto the Michigan Citizenship Requirement for Voting Amendment after the group turned in 263,643 MORE signatures than necessary. But the Board still turned it down.

Nearly a million Michiganders had their voice ignored. We’re going to open up a public discussion about what happened, take expert testimony, and get to the bottom of it. That’s the best way to make sure the Board makes the best recommendations going forward.

Only hours ago, the MI House Republicans made the following announcement:

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Kavanaugh has ordered Jocelyn Benson, the State Board of Canvassers, and other Michigan officials to respond by NOON TOMORROW to an emergency Supreme Court application seeking to put the Michigan Citizens Only Voting amendment on the November ballot🗳

Michigan officials must file their response soon, a key step as the Supreme Court considers whether to grant emergency relief.

Do Michigan Voters want non-citizens voting in their elections? 

On January 26, 2025, the Remington Group released a survey of Michigan voters, asking them to identify which presidential candidate they voted for in 2026 and to share their opinions on non-citizens voting in elections. While 44% of respondents said they voted for Kamala Harris and only 43% said they voted for President Trump, the survey showed a whopping 87% were in favor of ONLY U.S. citizens voting in Michigan elections. An astounding 73% of respondents said they wanted voters to prove their citizenship before registering to vote.

So, who is really behind the fight to keep non-citizens on Michigan’s voter rolls?

Meet Mark Brewer, former ACLU board member and president of the Detroit chapter. Whenever a radical Democrat idea, individual, or group needs representation, Mark Brewer is there to fight for them, no matter how misguided or, in some cases, downright evil their agenda may be. Brewer is also a former chair of the Michigan Democratic Party.

On Monday, Mark Brewer was in Lansing, Michigan, to argue against the Citizens Only ballot proposal making the November ballot.

Mark Brewer

Mark Brewer is the lawyer who’s fighting to ensure non-citizens don’t have to prove citizenship to register to vote and US citizens don’t have to show a valid picture identification to vote:

In the 1990s, he sat on the ACLU of Michigan board and was president of the Detroit ACLU chapter.

Meet Mary Ellen Gurewitz, vice-chair of the Michigan Board of Canvassers.

Mary Ellen Gurewitz

Brewer and Gurewitz are longtime Democratic election-law colleagues. Brewer was an associate, then partner, at Sachs Waldman from 1983 to 1995. Gurewitz also practiced there. That union-side Detroit firm is where their professional relationship started.

Brewer and Gurewitz were Co-counsel on major voting cases

They were principal attorneys together in the 2018 straight-ticket voting case (Common Cause / A. Philip Randolph Institute). Gurewitz put on evidence that Black voters used straight-ticket voting at much higher rates; a judge found the GOP-backed ban had discriminatory intent.

They were also 2020 election lawyers

Their long-standing relationship/friendship may explain Gurewitz’s behavior, as she frequently looked to Brewer during the Michigan Board of Canvassers. She would look at him, and he would nod in agreement after she shot down another signature, verified with an affidavit.

Meet Governor Gretchen Whitmer Appointee to the Michigan Board of Canvassers, Heather Cummings

Heather Cummings

As the morning dragged on, Gurewitz and her fellow Governor Gretchen Whitmer appointed board of canvassers member Heather Cummings, (also a volunteer lawyer for the radical, far left ACLU), continued to pretend to be handwriting experts, it appeared to be clear that the two of them had made up their minds before they ever entered the room that they would ensure there was no chance they would approve of enough signatures to allow the Citizens Only proposal to make it onto the ballot.

After a long day of listening to the two Democrat activists shooting down one signature or another, the count rose to 626 valid signatures in the sample, which left the petition 3 short of the 629 needed.

The board then deadlocked 2–2 and did not certify the petition for the November ballot.

The three ACLU lawyers Mark Brewer, the lawyer representing the opposition to the petition, his former co-counsel Mary Ellen Gurewitz, and Heather Cummings, who all appeared to be working together to strip 700K Michigan voters of their right to demand only citizens vote in Michigan elections Democrats were able to defeat the petition by deadlocking the vote 2-2, with all but 3 signatures confirmed.

All three of the old friends and like-minded ACLU lawyers can be seen having a discussion together about halfway through the meeting.

ACVM did not file in Washington because it likes the travel. It filed because it does not expect a timely ruling from a Michigan Supreme Court that is 6–1 with 6 far-left Democrat justices. Five of those six Democratic justices were put on the court by election or by Gov. Whitmer. The lone Republican is Justice Brian Zahra. Republican Justice Zahra and Democrat Justice Noah Hood are the only two justices who were judges before becoming supreme court justices. With ballots scheduled to be locked down on September 4, sitting on the case in Lansing is the same as killing the petition. That is why the group asked Justice Kavanaugh to act by September 3.

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