LANSING, Mich. – Michigan’s bipartisan co-chairs of Democracy Defense Project called on all parties today to stop pushing misinformation and doubts about the security of Michigan elections. Multiple bipartisan analyses and reports show that the election process is secure, transparent and accurate.
The DDP’s four Michigan board members – former Govs. Jim Blanchard, a Democrat; John Engler, a Republican; former Lt. Gov. John Cherry, a Democrat; and former U.S. Congressman Mike Bishop, a Republican – released the following statement:
“Michigan’s elections are a model of security, transparency and accuracy, overseen by local clerks and neighbors in our community who come from all backgrounds, follow the law and do their jobs with honesty and integrity. We urge all parties to spend their energy raising awareness about the safety and security protections that are already in place in Michigan to make sure that every eligible voter’s ballot counts. The people of Michigan are eager to see our leaders fight for issues that matter to them. Too many critics are not doing the hard work of campaigning and getting their voters to cast ballots, and choosing instead to promote misinformation and attempting to re-litigate an election from six years ago that every credible report has concluded was accurate and transparent, with no evidence of widespread fraud.”
A group known as Pure Integrity Michigan Elections said it plans to ask the Department of Justice to investigate the 2020 elections in Michigan and is completing a 500-page report written by volunteers to present to the DOJ, according to news reports today.
Multiple reports and analyses have shown no proof of fraud in the 2020 election, which Joe Biden won, defeating Donald Trump. The rejection of widespread fraud includes a Michigan Senate Republican report, which called claims of fraud “outright deception.” President Trump’s former Attorney General Bill Barr said evidence does not show “fraud on a scale that could have effected a different outcome in the election.”
Michigan has reported only 19 cases of individual acts of election fraud between 1982 and 2025, according to data compiled by the Heritage Foundation.
Robust safeguards and protections ensure Michigan elections are secure, transparent and accurate. They include ensuring no voting machines are connected to the internet, so they cannot be accessed or hacked online, and requiring all absentee ballot drop boxes to be monitored by video. To protect the chain of custody, only authorized clerk personnel may collect ballots, and they must closely track and transfer ballots. In close results, local clerks ensure ballots are both machine-counted and then hand-counted to verify accuracy. Local clerks must update their voter rolls and remove all inactive or incorrect registrations on a regular basis. The number of ballots issued must match the number of ballots cast, by mail and in person.
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Published: Jun 23, 2026
