Despite the majority of citizens (including Democrats), who don’t want non-citizens on Michigan’s voter rolls, Michigan Secretary of State and Democrat candidate for governor, Jocelyn Benson, isn’t giving up the fight to keep non-citizens on the voter rolls and prevent any petition by the people, government entity, or even U.S. Supreme Court from identifying and removing them.U.S. Supreme Court Justice Kavanaugh, MI SOS Jocelyn BensonMichigan voters, regardless of political party, do NOT want non-citizens voting in their elections. In fact, a whopping 87% of voters evenly split between Democrats and Republicans in Michigan said in a recent Remington Group poll that they are not in favor of non-citizens voting in Michigan elections.America’s dirtiest Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson is not about representing the people she was elected to represent, she is, and always has been, about looking out for her own special interests. Jocelyn Benson and her right hand man, Bureau of Elections Director Jonathan Brater, have done everything within their power to ensure non-citizens are not only placed on Michigan’s voter rolls, but ensuring they maintain the sole authority to identify them.Director of BOE MI Jonathan BraterHere’s the scary truthBenson and Brater do not need a law that says “only we may check citizenship.” They built the system so the check cannot happen without them. The Bureau of Elections owns the Qualified Voter File. Clerks can see the state and edit only their own city or township, but they cannot add a citizenship flag. The one Michigan agency USCIS lists for voter-registration SAVE access is the Department of State in Lansing — not Wayne County, not Detroit, not a township clerk.SOS branches handle automatic voter registration. Once that name is on the statewide voter list, the local clerk cannot use the federal citizenship-check system, and a “non-citizen” mark on that person’s driver’s-license record is not an order from Lansing to take them off the rolls.Benson and Brater have also kept everyone else off the full file. The DOJ asked for the unredacted rolls — dates of birth, driver’s license numbers, last four of Social Security — and Benson refused. Courts have so far allowed her to stonewall them.Last week, on Monday, August 24, hundreds of Michigan residents packed the Michigan Board of Canvassers meeting in Lansing to defend the validity of the Americans for Citizens Only Voting petition which was turned in several months ago with an astounding 709,841 signatures, 59.1% over the threshold of the minimum to make the ballot, which was only 446,198.ACVM did not sneak this petition in at the last minute. The petitions landed on March 4, 2026 — more than four months before the July 6 filing deadline and eight months before Election Day. The Bureau of Elections sat on those 709,841 signatures for five and a half months. Staff did not release the 1,000-signature sample until July 24. The staff report calling the petition 17 signatures short did not come out until August 17. That is 166 days after the boxes were delivered, and it left the campaign 17 days to fight challenges, chase affidavits, and get in front of the Board of State Canvassers on August 24.The Michigan Board of Canvassers was asked to review the signatures pulled from the “random sampling” that the Board of Elections Director Jonathan Brater’s staff deemed unacceptable because, according to the staff members, the signatures on the petition didn’t match the signatures they had on file. Many audience members could be heard remarking that their signatures have changed over the years, suggesting this was a completely unfair practice. The intense scrutiny given to each signature by the amateur signature sleuths was especially difficult to watch, given that only 6 years ago, Michigan’s top election official, Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, told her clerks to ignore signature matching when accepting absentee ballots and assume the signature matched.The attorneys working with ACVM were able to obtain 23 affidavits from the sampling of 1,000 that MI Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson’s Board of Elections “staff members” rejected, to prove that the signatures they called into question were indeed, valid signatures. The attornies provided 19 affidavits by the 10 am Saturday deadline and an additional 4 more on Saturday (the time of the delivery is unclear).The MI Board of Canvassers Meeting Was Like A Scene Taken Out of Atlas ShruggedMark Brewer-Attorney fighting to keep the petition from making it on the ballot, BOE Director Jonathan Brater, Leftist Attorney and Governor Gretchen Whitmer appointed Democrat Board of Canavassers member Heather Cummings.For almost 5 hours, Michigan citizens watched smug Democrats disregard legitimate signatures on affidavits filed by voters who were accused by the Michigan Board of Elections of not being legitimate. Two Republican and two Democrats sitting on the Michigan Board of Canvassers, who have no expertise whatsoever to analyze and determine whether or not a signature is a match with the voter’s signature, discounted signatures verified by a notary public with shocking arrogance and smugness.Yesterday, after the folks behind the ACVM petition filed an emergency Supreme Court application seeking to put the Michigan Citizens Only Voting amendment on the November ballot, Justice Kavanaugh responded, giving Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, Director of Elections Jonathan Brater and the Michigan Board of Canvassers until noon today to respond.This afternoon, Jocelyn Benson’s attorney responded to Justice Kavanaugh’s request, basically begging the U.S. Supreme Court to allow the far left Michigan Supreme Court handle (slow walk) the case. If the U.S. Supreme Court agrees with Benson, it would essentially ensure the proposal would never make it on the ballot for the upcoming election, as it would never be settled before the Sept. 4 deadline when the Michigan Board of Canvassers meet to finalize the ballots for the upcoming election.In her argument to the U.S. Supreme Court, Benson attempts to explain the “random” sampling process used to identify the signatures that didn’t match the QVF. But if the Board of Canvassers agreed that several of the affidavits they received during the hearing last week matched the signatures on the QVF, then why did Jonathan Brater’s staff flag them in the first place? It sure seems like a forensic expert should have been called int and at a minimum, an outside non-partisan group should be able to conduct a completely separate random sampling of 1,000 petition signatures to see if they find the same issues identified by Brater’s staff.Why have so many roadblocks been placed in front of honest American citizens who only want clean voter rolls?Not only did Benson’s Board of Elections drag their feet on the results of the “random” sampling of signatures on the petition, but petition sponsors cannot even see the QVF signature images Jonathan Brater’s Bureau staff used to reject names in the 1,000-signature “sample.” ACVM was told to hunt down the voters and get affidavits instead.Clerks have said in public they cannot verify citizenship once a name is on the list. The amendment that would have required proof of citizenship to register is the one Democrats on the Canvassers Board deadlocked off the ballot last week, and the one she is telling Justice Kavanaugh not to touch.So, there you have it…Sec of State Benson owns the voter file.Benson’s department is the only Michigan office USCIS lists as authorized to run the federal citizenship check on voter registrations.Individuals are placed on the voter rolls at Benson’s driver’s-license offices. The clerk only sees the name after they’ve already been registered. Clerks have no way of verifying their citizenship or even their validity.And the Democrat candidate for governor in the upcoming election will not give anyone else the records that would let them run any checks. And now, she’s not only asking every citizen in the state of Michigan to trust her that the citizens only voting proposal shouldn’t make it on the ballot, she’s also asking voters to make her and Jonathan Brater the only two people voters should trust that non-citizens are not on Michigan’s voter rolls.Could it be that Jocelyn doesn’t want a proposal on the upcoming ballot that would attract more conservatives than liberals to vote in an election where the very unpopular Secretary of State will also be on the ballot running for the top spot in Michigan?Please pray that the U.S. Supreme Court takes up this case. The post BREAKING: Michigan Sec of State Replies To Justice Kavanaugh—Gives Laughable Response About Why It’s Not Fair For Supreme Court To Review Citizens Only Vote Petition Case appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.