By Lily Guiney
Gongwer News Service
The U.S. Supreme Court won’t hear a case regarding Michigan’s voter rolls and whether election officials in the state have sufficiently complied with the National Voter Registration Act, ending a conservative firm’s quest for legal standing to sue Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson.
The high court denied certiorari in Public Interest Legal Foundation, Inc. v. Benson (COA Docket No. 24-1255) on Monday, allowing prior dismissals of the lawsuit by the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan to stand.
Benson cheered SCOTUS’s decision to not hear the case in a Monday statement, saying the affirmation across all levels of the judicial system shows the Department of State is doing its job in maintaining the state’s Qualified Voter File and removing individuals who shouldn’t be on it at a sufficient rate.
“Michigan is one of the most active states in the nation when it comes to keeping our voter file up to date and cancelling the registrations of people who have died,” Benson said. “The claims in this lawsuit were not supported by evidence; they were partisan attacks aimed at undermining people’s faith in our secure elections. I’m glad to see the Supreme Court acknowledge that the facts and the law still matter and stand with the lower courts that have praised Michigan’s comprehensive work to maintain accurate voter rolls.”
Other legal challenges to the state’s policies for removing voters from the QVF or to the 2022 and 2024 elections in Michigan based on alleged illegally registered voters failed or were dismissed in courts in 2025.
Benson’s statement noted the 6th Circuit’s dismissal of the suit in particular, which included an opinion from the three-judge panel that voted unanimously to deny standing to PILF.
“A state that actively makes efforts to remove dead registrants based on state and federal death records is engaging in an inherently rational, sensible attempt at maintaining accurate voter registration lists,” the judges said in their dismissal ruling. “Michigan not only undertakes the kind of effort described ... but it also adopts additional standards as well.”
MDOS and local election officials have removed 1.4 million registrations from the QVF since 2019, making Michigan a top 10 state for actively removing deceased individuals from its voter rolls.
Gongwer News Service
The U.S. Supreme Court won’t hear a case regarding Michigan’s voter rolls and whether election officials in the state have sufficiently complied with the National Voter Registration Act, ending a conservative firm’s quest for legal standing to sue Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson.
The high court denied certiorari in Public Interest Legal Foundation, Inc. v. Benson (COA Docket No. 24-1255) on Monday, allowing prior dismissals of the lawsuit by the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan to stand.
Benson cheered SCOTUS’s decision to not hear the case in a Monday statement, saying the affirmation across all levels of the judicial system shows the Department of State is doing its job in maintaining the state’s Qualified Voter File and removing individuals who shouldn’t be on it at a sufficient rate.
“Michigan is one of the most active states in the nation when it comes to keeping our voter file up to date and cancelling the registrations of people who have died,” Benson said. “The claims in this lawsuit were not supported by evidence; they were partisan attacks aimed at undermining people’s faith in our secure elections. I’m glad to see the Supreme Court acknowledge that the facts and the law still matter and stand with the lower courts that have praised Michigan’s comprehensive work to maintain accurate voter rolls.”
Other legal challenges to the state’s policies for removing voters from the QVF or to the 2022 and 2024 elections in Michigan based on alleged illegally registered voters failed or were dismissed in courts in 2025.
Benson’s statement noted the 6th Circuit’s dismissal of the suit in particular, which included an opinion from the three-judge panel that voted unanimously to deny standing to PILF.
“A state that actively makes efforts to remove dead registrants based on state and federal death records is engaging in an inherently rational, sensible attempt at maintaining accurate voter registration lists,” the judges said in their dismissal ruling. “Michigan not only undertakes the kind of effort described ... but it also adopts additional standards as well.”
MDOS and local election officials have removed 1.4 million registrations from the QVF since 2019, making Michigan a top 10 state for actively removing deceased individuals from its voter rolls.
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