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• A fraudulent voter registration scheme was discovered in October 2020 and documented in a police report in Muskegon County and hidden for nearly 3 years after the 2020 Election.
• A city clerk in Muskegon witnessed a woman drop off between 8,000 and 10,000 voter registrations at the clerk office on Oct. 8, 2020, many appearing to be fraudulent. The incident was reported it to the Muskegon Police Department one week later. Eight thousand new voter registrations in Muskegon would amount to over 20 percent of the city’s population of only 38,000 residents.
• An ensuing investigation confirmed thousands of voter registrations in the same handwriting and many invalid or non-existent addresses. The suspect told Michigan State Police that she was being paid $1,150 per week to “find unregistered voters and provide them with a form so they can get registered to vote or obtain their absentee ballot.” The police found “dozens of new phones” and “hundreds of pre-paid payment cards” during the investigation.
• A Department of State analyst consulted in the investigation confirmed a quantity of voter applications were “clearly fraudulent” and others were “highly suspicious having either erroneous or are missing key pieces of information.” Others appeared to be legitimate.
• The organization behind the scheme was GBI Strategies, a firm hired by numerous Democrat campaigns. GBI Strategies was funded by a super PAC called “Black PAC,” which paid the firm $11,254,919 to register voters for Joe Biden in 2020. Employees of GBI Strategies were paid $15 an hour or $120 a day, according to the police report.
• GBI Strategies was believed to be operating not just in Muskegon, but throughout Michigan and in other Swing States.
• Democrat Attorney General Dana Nessel’s office contacted the Muskegon Police Department and asked Michigan State Police to assist with a joint investigation. The Michigan police then turned their investigation over to the FBI.
• Andrew Kloster, deputy general counsel at the United States Office of Personnel Management during the Trump Administration, said he was made aware of the investigation into GBI Strategies before the 2020 Election and attempted to raise the issue for further investigation. He was informed there were “standing orders not to deal with election matters” in the offices of the White House counsel office and Attorney General Bill Barr.
• The investigation was not made public until 2023, after the police reports were obtained through a Michigan Freedom of Information Act request.Image
Muskegon clerk spots ‘irregularities’ in voter registration applications
Posted: Oct 30, 2020
MUSKEGON, Mich. (WOOD) — The Muskegon city clerk says her office caught hundreds of “irregular” voter registration applications, and while police are investigating the source, they say the applications won’t impact the election.
Those irregularities, according to Muskegon City Clerk Ann Meisch, include voter information on forms that did not match information listed in the Secretary of State’s database.
None of the forms flagged as “irregular” resulted in any ballots being sent out incorrectly.
“Three weeks ago, we started receiving boxes of voter registration applications. When we started to enter them, we noticed irregularities,” Meisch told News 8. “When those items are not matching, that immediately puts up a red flag for us.”
While Meisch said it’s typical to get a few irregular voter registration forms, she said her office was seeing more than what it usually receives.
“We received about 6,000 voter registration applications,” Meisch said. “Most of them were valid, but several hundred had those type of irregularities that we knew were not right.”
Last week, Meisch’s office turned over the flagged applications to the Muskegon Police Department, the Muskegon County Prosecutor’s Office and the Michigan Attorney General’s Office.
Muskegon Police Capt. Shawn Bride told News 8 that while his department is investigating where the irregularities came from, there’s no concern they could affect the outcome of Tuesday’s election.
“Despite claims to the contrary, this investigation is in no way related to ballots,” Bride said. “There is no expected impact on any election.”
The irregularities still caused a headache for the clerk’s office.
“It cost us hundreds of hours of work, but the great part is we brought in our retired staff who is very experienced and made sure that people who were valid were registered. We got it done, but again, it was a lot of work,” Meisch said.
A spokesperson for Michigan State Police released the following statement Friday night on the investigation:
“The Michigan State Police, in tandem with the Attorney General’s office, Michigan Department of State and Muskegon Police Department, is working on an investigation into possible voter registration irregularities. This investigation is ongoing. No arrests have occurred.
“The investigation was initiated by the Muskegon Police Department after the Muskegon City Clerk’s Office reported irregularities in voter registration forms both mailed and dropped off in-person in quantity in late September and October 2020. The Muskegon Clerk’s office reported the irregularities with the Michigan Bureau of Elections, which reported it to the Attorney General and Michigan State Police. Despite claims to the contrary, this investigation is in no way related to ballots or ballot drop boxes. None of the irregular voter registrations in Muskegon resulted in voters receiving absentee ballots, any resulting registrations have been voided, and there is no expected impact on any election.”
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