With only 42 days until the November 2026 election, Barry County Sheriff Dar Leaf is making it crystal clear for Michigan’s corrupt Secretary of State, Jocelyn Benson, that he is not playing games with her anymore.
In his first of a series of videotaped explanations about his ongoing investigation into a Secretary of State employee’s whistleblower claim, Barry County Sheriff Dar Leaf explains how the whistleblower — “now a protected confidential informant” — brought his office evidence that “non-citizens were automatically added to Michigan’s voter roll when they changed an address at an SOS branch,” and that his office sent that evidence to the federal government. An SOS manager, Leaf says, admitted knowing about the automatic placements and told the employee not to worry: city clerks would pull the non-citizens off. Leaf calls that a lie. Municipal and county clerks, he says, cannot see citizenship on the Qualified Voter File. “They do not have the data to do so,” he said. Sheriff Leaf says the criminal investigation is ongoing, his office is working with the Department of Justice and Homeland Security, and those agencies have already interviewed witnesses. He calls the case “extremely serious.”
“My office has continued its investigation and is cooperating with the federal government,” Leaf said, adding, “The federal government — the United States Department of Justice and the Department of Homeland Security — have spoken and interviewed witnesses.”
In his second video, Sheriff Dar Leaf says Michigan Department of State Chief Legal Director Khyla D. Craine wrote him that branch staff are not authorized to give law enforcement information on a verbal request, accused him of contacting Elections Director Jonathan Brater outside official channels, and accused him of harassing SOS staff. Leaf posted her letter on his X account.
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