Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson leaves the building after voting in the Electoral College in Lansing, Michigan’s capital city, Dec. 14, 2020.
A Michigan judge granted a discovery motion Monday (Jan. 11) ordering Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson to provide plaintiffs with her communications with county election officials, the state Legislature and Google, Amazon, Apple and Facebook.
13th Circuit Judge Kevin Elsenheimer on Monday granted a request by plaintiffs’ defense attorney Matthew DePerno to order Secretary of State Benson to show her communications with the state Legislature, county election officials, and big tech companies Google, Amazon, Apple and Facebook, with a deadline of Feb. 1. The judge also ruled that the state of Michigan is not a party to the law. The judge also ruled that the state of Michigan can release the names of forensic (deposition) investigators.
The case is Bailey v. Antrim County.
They (the defendants) have argued with us on every request, and they don’t want to give us any documents or information,” plaintiff William Bailey told The Epoch Times on Tuesday (Jan. 12). But they now have to hand over a lot of documents about the election. Basically, they have to disclose to us how they are conducting the 2020 election.”
But the information Bailey obtained will omit the word “state of Michigan” because Benson argues that the plaintiffs do not have all the information about Michigan.
Benson’s office did not respond to a request for comment.
A spokesman for Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel’s office said by email, “We are pleased with the court’s resolution (ruling) on the issues at issue, as the judge narrowed the plaintiffs’ overly broad claims.”
According to court documents obtained, Benson must produce communications, correspondence and documents regarding Antrim County’s training for the 2020 election, and likewise the terms of the contract regarding Michigan’s voting system. The office must also produce documents of its communications with state lawmakers, county officials and Dominion Voting Systems, among others.
The case was filed after the November 2020 general election. Antrim County voter Bailey noted that the county initially declared that Democratic President-elect Joe Biden won the most votes, but later reported that Trump (Trump) actually won the county. Although officials claim that the county’s misplaced Biden win was the result of human error, investigators who conducted an audit of the voting machines and software concluded that, the system was designed to cause the election to be fraudulent and concluded that the county’s results should not have been certified.
“Secretary of State Benson jumped into this case on her own, she brought it up, we didn’t ask her to intervene. She intervened in the case because she wanted to stop the release of a (forensic) report. But she failed.” Bailey told that “the judge correctly saw through (the defendant’s) objections and granted our motion to have her produce the documents to us. That was the really important part of the hearing.”
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