On July 21, 2025, the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, led by Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon, demanded that Michigan’s crooked Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson turn over Michigan’s full, unredacted Qualified Voter File — not the public list, but the files with dates of birth, driver’s license numbers, and the last four digits of Social Security numbers.
Instead of complying, the former Southern Poverty Law Center Board member and current Democrat candidate for Michigan governor, mailed the stripped-down public version and kept the rest. On September 25, 2025, the DOJ sued Benson, and then on February 10, 2026, a federal judge dismissed the case. On June 24 the Sixth Circuit agreed. On August 14 the full appeals court refused to rehear the case. Benson still has not produced the unredacted rolls.
Benson claimed she refused to turn over the voter rolls because wants to protect the voters “privacy,” by not sharing the social security numbers assigned by the federal government. On July 7, 2026 — after the Sixth Circuit loss — Dhillon warned Benson in writing that knowingly leaving noncitizens on the statewide list, sending them ballots, and counting those ballots can be a federal crime, and gave her five days to explain how Michigan would comply.
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