Jocelyn Benson Warns Trump-Backed Challenger Could Sway 2024 Results

(From May 13, 2022) More than a year and a half after the 2020 general election, Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, a Democrat, continues to fight back against disinformation and lies about the results in her state, warning that the "risk" to the nation's democracy "is now greater than ever."

By all official accounts, Benson oversaw one of the midwestern state's most successful elections in 2020. More Michiganders voted than ever before, with some 5.5 million people (or just over 70 percent of eligible voters) casting ballots—blowing past the previous record of 5 million voters set in 2008. The unprecedented number of mail-in ballots resulted in a longer-than-normal amount of time before the state was called for President Joe Biden, but the final results withstood the scrutiny of multiple audits.

Although former President Donald Trump and many Republicans, including Benson's 2022 GOP challenger Kristina Karamo, continue to insist that Michigan's results were fraudulent, a local Republican review disagreed. A review led by Republican state Senator Ed McBroom determined in June 2021 that there was "no evidence presented at this time to prove either significant acts of fraud or that an organized, wide-scale effort to commit fraudulent activity was perpetrated in order to subvert the will of Michigan voters." (READ MORE at Newsweek)