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
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