By Michigan Fair Elections | February 13, 2024
On January 24, State Representatives Rachelle Smit and Jay DeBoyer (R) submitted letters to Christopher Wray, director of the FBI and Dana Nessel, Michigan's attorney general to discuss the FBI's ongoing case of GBI Strategies' alleged election fraud in the November 2020 election in Muskegon, Michigan.
This is not just a case of potential identity theft. It is also a case of criminal conspiracy to commit election fraud.
David Howell, MFE's lead investigator on the Muskegon GBI Strategies case, applauded the two state representatives for their actions in calling the FBI to account. (See David's previous article Hear No Evil, See No Evil.)
"This is the first positive development in this case since October 2020!!" Howell wrote to Michigan Fair Elections. "Now, the question becomes: What about all of the state actors who need to be held accountable?" he asked.
First, Howell cited the Michigan State Police's (MSP) failure to carry the investigation forward and alert/inform law enforcement, clerks, and prosecutors to be on the lookout for suspicious voter registrations in the other Michigan cities where GBI Strategies was known operate. These locations include Inkster, Southfield, Flint, Lansing, Ypsilanti, Benton Harbor, and Auburn Hills among others with Empower Michigan.
"Hence, we have no information regarding the number of voter registrations that were submitted by GBI Strategies and Empower Michigan to the clerks, how many were fraudulent, and how many in total were added to the state's voter rolls," Howell said.
Michigan's official voter rolls are called the Qualified Voter File (QVF).
Howell went on to cite Attorney General Dana Nessel for failing to issue any subpoenas, indictments, or to convene Grand Jury proceedings versus the suspected individuals and their two sponsoring organizations, GBIS and EM, despite their implication in this widespread voter fraud case.
"Both the Michigan State Police and A.G. Nessel," Howell said, "failed to explain their rationale for omitting any consideration of voter or election fraud."
Howell used the phrase, voter fraud because every fraudulent voter registration that may have been added to the QVF was immediately followed by an Absent Voter Ballot Application…and a cast--allegedly fraudulent--vote. Police documents referred to the investigation as into "voter fraud."
Third, Howell pointed out that the Secretary of State and the Bureau of Elections, "based on all of the digital and electronic data seized by the MSP at the GBIS offices in Muskegon Heights and Southfield--should have called for and conducted a comprehensive forensic audit" of all voter registrations or re-registrations submitted by GBIS and EM to any clerk's office in the State of Michigan and added to the QVF from August 1 to November 3, 2020.
"GBI Strategies (and probably Empower Michigan as well)," Howell said, "downloaded a copy of every Voter Registration & Absent Voter Ballot Application that they submitted for their own records, so the information should be readily available from the digital and electronic evidence seized at their Muskegon Heights and Southfield offices."
This also highlights the significance of the MSP’s failure to investigate, search, and gather evidence at any of the other known GBIS or EM offices in Michigan.
Howell added, "This could be considered a dereliction of duty and malfeasance of the highest order by the MSP and Attorney General."
Howell said Michigan election law requires cities and townships to retain selected election-related documents for specific periods of time before they can be permanently deleted or destroyed. However, these retention requirements tend to vary considerably from one type of document to another, making transparency and tracing more difficult.
For instance, original Voter Registration Master Cards with the voter’s signature are retained for five years after the voter’s name is removed from the QVF, but the initial Voter Registration Application, which is the original source document, can be destroyed as soon as the Voter Registration Master Card is filled out.
Another example is that while Absentee Voter Ballot Applications must be held for six years following an election, Absentee Ballot Envelopes, Absentee Voter Lists, and QVF Precinct Lists which would be useful in a voter fraud investigation can all be destroyed just two years after an election. All ballots that list federal offices for election must be preserved at least 22 months post-election, but ballots solely for state and local offices can be destroyed just thirty days after a canvass of the election has been completed.
Howell explained that as a result, while some critical pieces of evidence in this case still remain to be preserved and collected, others that should have been collected via the City Clerks of Southfield, Inkster, Ypsilanti, Flint, Lansing, Benton Harbor, and Auburn Hills (to name a few) may have already been destroyed after November 2022 due to the deliberate failure of the Attorney General, Secretary of State, and Michigan State Police to expand the scope of their voter fraud investigation in the final days leading up to the November 3, 2020 Presidential Election.
Representatives Smit and DeBoyer:
This investigation has continued without resolution for over three years, and we're now headed into another Presidential election. The People of Michigan, like millions of Americans watching what happens in Michigan want - and deserve - answers.
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David Howell, retired Army National Guard Physician Assistant and former State Surgeon; four combat tours in Desert Storm, Iraq (2), and Afghanistan; awarded Legion of Merit, Bronze Star Medal (2), and Army Meritorious Service Medal (3). Howell currently serves as a volunteer docent at the Michigan History Museum and takes care of rescued horses with his wife on a small farm west of Lansing.
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