In October 2020, only one month before the general election, GBI Strategies, a Democrat-funded group, was caught by the Muskegon and Michigan State Police Departments submitting potentially thousands of false voter registration applications to the Muskegon Clerk’s office.
The offices of Democrat Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson and Democrat Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel each had investigators working with the Michigan State Police on the statewide investigation. According to the key suspect in the investigation, GBI Strategies focused on “canvassing” in urban areas of the state. The Michigan State Police report identifies U.S. Senator Gary Peters (D) and then-presidential candidate Joe Biden as the two campaigns funding the fraudulent voter registration group’s work in the key swing state.
In Minnesota, the FBI investigated a similar voter registration fraud scam involving two individuals and an unnamed “voter registration” group that paid them for each registration they submitted. The voter fraud crimes took place between 2021 and 2022. Unlike Michigan, the perpetrators in this case were charged.
Two Nevada residents have pleaded guilty to filling out hundreds of voter registration forms with false information and then submitting them to 10 Minnesota election offices during the 2022 election. The former West St. Paul, Minnesota residents, 57-year-old Lorraine Lee Combs and 58-year-old Ronnie Williams, who are described as longtime romantic partners, were charged Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis. The couple was caught and charged with conspiracy to engage in voter registration fraud in Minnesota. They were both charged through a judicial process called information, which indicates to the court their intention to plead guilty.
According to court documents, an unnamed voter registration group paid both individuals to create the fake registrations and submit them to 10 different counties in Minnesota. The counties have not been named, but the Carver County Sheriff’s Department is mentioned in the U.S. Attorney’s press release. Carver County, MN, is a swing county with Republicans holding a slight edge over Democratic voters. Creating large numbers of new voters out of thin air could significantly impact the outcome of their elections.
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