Barry County Sheriff Dar Leaf did not write a speech this time. He posted the email.
Last week the sheriff said a whistleblower inside Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson’s office had shown him how non-citizens, including illegal aliens, get swept onto the voter file when they change an address. Skeptics wanted paper.
On August 26 he put a redacted message from a Michigan Department of State employee on X and let the words do the work. The Gateway Pundit published the screenshot.
I honestly think it is a CARS programming error that anytime anyone that changes their address, that document prints off and if/when it hits the county clerks office, nothing happens. As in she is not actually going to be registered to vote because they will see she is not a citizen. If that makes sense to you.
It does not make sense. That is the point.
The same employee then described the new default. Register everyone. Mail a paper. Hope the ineligible person bothers to send it back and say no.
With the new way of registering EVERYONE and requiring them to send back a paper to NOT be registered we are going to have so many people on the voter file who shouldn’t be. I am not a fan of this new way – as you can probably see. It just creates errors that can be possibly not caught.
An insider in Benson’s own department is telling a sheriff the machine is built to load the file first and sort citizenship later. Later never comes.
Congratulations, You Are Going to Be Registered
The whistleblower also sent the notice that lands in a new registrant’s hands. It reads like a party invitation.
Congratulations, you are going to be registered to vote! Your clerk will make sure you’re eligible. Prepare to Vote!
Your clerk. The same clerk who, according to Leaf, never sees a citizenship flag in the Qualified Voter File and has no override when the Customer and Automotive Records System prints the registration after an address change. The state issues the ID. The software writes the welcome letter. The township office inherits a name it cannot check.
Leaf said this weeks ago on video. The confidential informant showed a supervisor the proof and was told county clerks would catch it. “Unfortunately, ladies and gentlemen, this is not true,” the sheriff answered. Clerks get the file after the person is already on it. Polling places do not run a citizenship test. A state ID and a mail ballot request will do.
He referred the matter to the U.S. Department of Justice as a possible conspiracy to place non-citizens on the rolls and into the jury pool. He asked the legislature to shut the practice down. Benson’s shop answered the way it always answers.
Communications chief Angela Benander called Leaf a man with “a long record of making wild accusations about our elections that aren’t based in reality,” then pointed to a handful of Attorney General Dana Nessel prosecutions as proof the system works.
A handful of charges after the ballots are counted is not a safeguard. It is a press release.
Clerks Are Begging Washington Because Lansing Will Not Help
Hastings Charter Township Clerk David Olson did not wait for another memo from Lansing. After Leaf’s disclosure he recorded a plea for the Justice Department to compare federal records against his rolls. “Once it’s in the qualified voter file, there’s no way for me to verify citizenship,” Olson said. A second Michigan clerk followed with the same request on video.
These are not radio hosts. They are the people legally charged with keeping the list clean, and they are admitting they cannot do it while Benson’s software keeps feeding them names.
Michigan has already had this fight in miniature. Macomb County Clerk Anthony Forlini matched jury-duty excuses to the voter file and found non-citizens sitting on the rolls. Benson’s Bureau of Elections spent more energy scolding him than emptying the list.
In 2025 her own review found 15 credible cases of non-citizens voting in the 2024 general election after she had told Congress there was “no evidence” of the problem. Rare, she said. Rare is a word people use when they would rather not count.
Meanwhile a citizen-only voting amendment that gathered more than 700,000 signatures just died in a 2-2 deadlock at the Board of State Canvassers. The Bureau of Elections sample came in a handful of valid signatures short. Republicans on the board voted to put the question before voters.
Democrats voted to bury it. Benson, term-limited as secretary of state, is now the Democratic nominee for governor. The woman who runs the registration machine wants the keys to the whole house.
Opt Out If You Are Honest, Stay If You Are Not
Automatic voter registration sold itself as convenience. Change your address at the branch, skip a form, democracy gets easier. What the email describes is the opposite of a check. The default is yes. The burden is on the ineligible person to mail a paper saying no. Honest people might send it. Illegal aliens who want a ballot will not.
Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write grievousness which they have prescribed.
Benson’s office can keep calling Sheriff Leaf a conspiracy hobbyist. Two clerks have now asked the federal government to do the citizenship check her system will not allow. An employee of her department wrote that the new method will load the file with people who should never be there. The congratulations letter is already printing.
If the rolls are as clean as she claims, she can open the books, let SAVE run against every record, and let local clerks see a citizenship field that actually means something. Until that happens, Michigan is running an honor system for people who have already broken the law to be here, and calling it election security.
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