In 2020, Democrat-funded GBI Strategies, a “canvassing operation ” allegedly owned and operated by Gary Bell, set up shop in Michigan.
Only one month before the 2020 election, the Muskegon Police Department received a call from the Muskegon City Clerk alerting them that she had received between 8,000 and 10,000 voter registrations in the mail from an address in Auburn Hills, MI, with the initials “EM,” an abbreviation for Empower Michigan, the name used by GBI Strategies while operating in Michigan.
Muskegon Clerk Ann Meisch called the police when she discovered that many voter registrations delivered to her office were fraudulent.
On the deadline to return voter registrations in Michigan, a GBI Strategies compliance officer, identified in the Michigan State Police report as Brianna Hawkins, turned in an additional 2,500. After Muskegon Clerk Ann Meisch identified Ms. Hawkins on Facebook, the MSP began to follow her.
She was eventually pulled over by law enforcement. It was explained to Ms. Hawkins that she had a misdemeanor warrant for a previous marijuana charge and, subsequently, was asked to meet with the AG investigator to discuss her work with GBI Strategies/Empower MI. During the MI AG Investigator Stephen Morse’s interrogation, Ms. Hawkins admitted that at least 1,000 of the voter registrations she received from canvassers hired by GBI Strategies were fraudulent. She also explained that GBI Strategies/Empower Michigan was focused on registering voters in black-majority communities.
The MSP report shows GBI Strategies had “canvassers” working in several black-majority cities in Michigan, including Flint, Benton Harbor, Ypsilanti, Inkster, Southfield, Muskegon, Lansing, and Saginaw.
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