LANSING, Mich. (Michigan News Source) – The U.S. Attorney General has discovered more than 260,000 dead people and several thousand non-citizens during its review of voter rolls across the country thus far.

U.S. Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon gave an update on her office’s attempts to review all the voter rolls for every state in the country.

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Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson has refused to cooperate with the federal government on this issue. Benson said the information, such as social security information and driver’s license information, is private. Benson has said she is not handing the information over so to keep the information private and safe from identity fraud. She called the federal government’s request illegal and unconstitutional.

Dhillon said that the federal government is following a 2002 law called the Help America Vote Act. She said on Dec. 5 that four states voluntarily complied with providing their voter rolls. She said the U.S. Attorney General has filed lawsuits against 14 states, including Michigan. Thus far, Dhillon’s office had reviewed 47.5 million voter records.

“Even one person voting who shouldn’t have voted is one too many because every citizen is entitled to one person, one vote assumption that their vote is being counted equally and only with other American citizens,” Dhillon said.

Benson’s concern over privacy has been criticized, as data such as Social Security numbers and driver’s licenses are already in government data banks.

In addition, Benson’s office has been accused of giving voter registration data to a non-profit called the Electronic Registration Information Center (ERIC). The Michigan Fair Elections Institute called ERIC a tool of the progressives to boost voter registration for Democrats.