By Pamela Geller - on
Serious questions are mounting in Michigan as state lawmakers raise alarms over what they describe as large-scale voter registration irregularities — including tens of thousands of new registrations flagged with invalid Social Security numbers and a voter roll that reportedly exceeds the state’s adult population by roughly half a million names.
State Sen. Johnson has publicly warned that Michigan’s election system is “wide open for abuse,” pointing directly to the Help America Vote Verification System (HAVV) — the database intended to confirm the accuracy of voter registration information.
According to Johnson, roughly 100,000 people registered to vote in Michigan last year, and 36% of them — about 36,000 applicants — submitted invalid four-digit Social Security number matches, yet were still allowed to complete registration.
“This should never happen,” he said. “If those numbers cannot be verified, the registration should not go through. Period.”
Johnson also claims Michigan’s voter rolls now contain around 500,000 more registered voters than the state has voting-age adults, raising renewed concerns about non-citizen registrations, outdated rolls, and potential systemic vulnerabilities.
“How many of those are non-citizens?” Johnson asked. “How many are unverifiable? How many shouldn’t be registered at all?”
Compounding the controversy, Johnson alleges that Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson has shared Michigan voter data with outside nonprofits, a move he argues gives partisan operatives unprecedented access to the state’s voter information.
“We know that Jocelyn Benson has shared Michigan voter data with nonprofits,” Johnson said. “Every Democratic operative in America has access to our voter data if they want it.”
State officials have not confirmed these claims, and Benson’s office has previously defended its data-sharing practices as legal and routine. But the numbers Johnson is presenting have intensified calls for a full audit of Michigan’s voter rolls, verification systems, and data distribution practices...