11/24/2025
Jocelyn Benson has spent YEARS insisting that non-citizens and non-residents “aren’t voting in Michigan.” Well… the RNC just dropped a new lawsuit that proves she’s been lying this whole time.
According to the filing, Benson’s own election manual explicitly allows people who have never lived in Michigan — and in some cases have never lived in the United States — to cast a Michigan ballot. That directly violates the Michigan Constitution, which is crystal clear: ONLY Michigan residents can vote in Michigan elections.
Instead of tightening our elections, Benson quietly rewrote the rules to let non-residents slip through. Now the RNC is taking her to court to stop it — just like they already did in Arizona and successfully in North Carolina, where courts ruled that non-resident voting is unconstitutional there too.
So while Benson claims everything is “secure,” the legal evidence says otherwise. Michigan deserves election officials who follow the Constitution — NOT rewrite it.
Michigan voters deserve better. And in 2026, we’re going to fix this mess.
Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson's lax residency directive is 'unconstitutional and unlawful,' the RNC lawsuit alleges.