BREAKING: WE WON. A MICHIGAN COURT JUST STRUCK DOWN MICHIGAN SECRETARY OF STATE JOCELYN BENSON'S RULE ORDERING CLERKS TO DELETE ELECTION POLL BOOKS. FINAL JUDGMENT. PERMANENT. STATEWIDE. "Rule 168.48 is invalid." The rule: DELETE the poll book files after every election. The law: KEEP election records 22 months. The Court: "When an administrative rule conflicts with a statute, the statute controls." One township clerk asked which law to follow. Nobody answered. So Michelle McQueer sued. 82 days later, she won. For EVERY clerk in Michigan. Starting with TOMORROW'S election. And the Court directed the Secretary to write NEW instructions for all 1,520 clerks that follow the ruling. The poll book files go on encrypted flash drives and stay there for 22 months. Remember what we said in October? Reconstruction is not preservation. The Court agreed: "Retaining the metadata is as crucial as retaining the data itself." READ THAT ONE TWICE. The State's big burden? The Court found it's "at most, $100 per additional flash drive." Thank you to the RNC and Michigan Republican Party for joining me in the fight. The State can appeal. Until a court ever says otherwise, the poll books stay. ONE CLERK. TWO LAWS. THE LAW WON. The Opinion: McQueer v Benson, Michigan Court of Claims No. 26-000172-MZ Let's make Michigan safe, normal, and responsible again! 🇺🇸 @MIGOP @Republicans @WhiteHouse @MI_Republicans @Th_Midwesterner @MINewsSource @stevegrubershow @MrJustinBarclay @JonathanTurley @RobGouveiaEsq @downi75 @Mike_Cox @MrAustinPredict @gatewaypundit @honestpollster @mifairelections @dcexaminer @MZHemingway @jsolomonReports @HarmeetKDhillon

WATCH: @RobGouveiaEsq JUST BROKE DOWN OUR MOTION TO WIN AND THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT'S STATEMENT IN MY CLIENT'S CASE: Grateful for the continued attention to this important case. Links below. Benson's rule: DELETE the poll book files 7 days after the election is certified. Federal law: KEEP election records 22 months. One township clerk asked which law to follow. Nobody answered. So Michelle McQueer sued. Won a TRO. Also beat the State's motion to toss the case. Her August file is the ONLY one known to still exist. November’s records are next. Our motion to win shows what's erased using the State's OWN documents. Their answer? Benson's own data manager just swore the list each precinct downloaded for Election Day "need not be uploaded" to the state database. Why? "It would be duplicative." (Clone Aff, par 14) Their theory: the State tracks every change, so the list can be rebuilt later. Here's the thing. Reconstruction is not preservation. It’s DELETION with a RECEIPT. The next day, the United States filed in the case and told the Court that poll book data are federal election records, and the Secretary of State is responsible for keeping them. It also said that IF the Secretary is right that everything gets uploaded, prosecuting the clerks who deleted wouldn't be a priority. But own data manager just swore it doesn't all get uploaded… Delete or keep? The court record is now complete and now the judge decides. Our Motion to Win: The State's New Affidavit: Our Response to the New Affidavit: The U.S. Statement of Interest: Let's make Michigan safe, normal, and responsible again! 🇺🇸 @MIGOP @MI_Republicans @Th_Midwesterner @MINewsSource @stevegrubershow @MrJustinBarclay @JonathanTurley @downi75 @Mike_Cox @MrAustinPredict @gatewaypundit @honestpollster @mifairelections @dcexaminer @MZHemingway @jsolomonReports