DEARBORN HEIGHTS (Michigan News Source) – The controversial 2020 voter-registration investigation focused on Muskegon had a much bigger Michigan footprint.
Newly highlighted records obtained through Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests reportedly show GBI Strategies, also operating as Empower Michigan (EM), sent at least 104 packages containing voter-registration materials to clerk offices in at least 68 Michigan cities, with a heavy concentration in southeast Michigan.
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According to documents published by The Gateway Pundit, destinations receiving the packages included Benton Harbor, Detroit, Dearborn Heights, Eastpointe, Flint, Grand Rapids, Inkster, Muskegon, Port Huron, Southfield and Ypsilanti, among dozens of others. More than 22 cities reportedly received multiple shipments.
The records do not establish that every package contained fraudulent registrations. However, the records considerably broaden the geographic picture surrounding an investigation long associated primarily with Muskegon.
Clerks were comparing notes on Facebook.
Perhaps even more interesting is that Michigan clerks apparently talked about the shipments among themselves. Screenshots obtained by The Gateway Pundit from a private Michigan clerks Facebook group show clerks discussing packages arriving from EM from an Auburn Hills address.
One clerk noticed that the handwriting on an address label looked like the handwriting on her own package. Other posts described questionable registrations, including applications with the same last four numbers of their social security number, fake names, fake addresses and many of the same signatures.
It started with thousands in Muskegon.
The investigation, first reported by Gateway Pundit, began after Muskegon Clerk Ann Meisch contacted police in October 2020 about suspicious voter-registration applications. Investigative records say Meisch estimated GBI/Empower Michigan delivered between 8,000 and 10,000 registrations to her office, with another roughly 2,500 later delivered in person. Investigators found examples involving nonexistent addresses, questionable phone numbers, mismatched signatures and forms apparently completed by the same writer.
Michigan State Police and Attorney General Dana Nessel’s office investigated before the case was referred to the FBI. State officials have maintained the fraudulent applications were caught and did not result in fraudulent votes. Incredibly, the FBI investigation ultimately closed without charges after investigators said they had exhausted available leads and found no criminal violation or priority national-security threat. This came even though an FBI review of 107 voter-registration applications found that 91 could not be matched to anyone in law-enforcement or Michigan Secretary of State databases. Of the remaining 16 tied to actual people, only four had signatures matching those already on file.
From one city to 68.
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What the newly publicized shipping records add is scale. GBI’s operation was already known to have worked in multiple Michigan communities. Now records reportedly documenting shipments to 68 cities raise another question: exactly what was inside all those packages and what was the operation intended to accomplish?
