08/27/2026
A Michigan lawmaker says she pulled a de*d voter off the rolls and the name came right back, then the state mailed ballots. We fully expect this post to get shadowb*nned for exposing this testimony, by the way.
Rep. Rachelle Smit, a Republican from Martin Township and chair of the House Election Integrity Committee, told colleagues she lived this as a clerk.
“I took off a de*d voter in my township and guess what? That de*d voter was put back on.” She said it was not her doing. She blamed the Secretary of State’s office.
Smit also described a relative who had been registered at her in-laws’ house and had been de*d nearly 20 years.
“They were put on the rolls. They were mailed voter application ballots without the authorization.” She removed the name again.
She says it reappeared and even came with an early-voting card.
A Public Interest Legal Foundation review of Michigan’s file as of August 2021 found 25,975 potentially deceased registrants.
Of those, 23,663 had been de*d five years or more, 17,479 at least ten years, and 3,956 at least twenty. At least two listed birth years before 1921. About 95 percent of the matches were marked “active,” the status that gets mail applications.
Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson’s office says Michigan cancels de*d voters using Social Security and other records and that federal courts later sided with the state’s maintenance process.
Smit’s point is narrower and firsthand: names she personally cancelled did not stay cancelled, and paper still went out.
Clean rolls are not optional. If a clerk can delete a de*d relative and watch the file resurrect that person, Michigan has a list problem that mail ballots make worse.
Demand the SAVE Act and a public audit of every “active” record that should have been gone.