Dispute over election training materials continues as Benson releases additional documents
While the Michigan Department of State released another round of documents used to train election workers Tuesday, aiming to fulfill a request from the House Oversight Committee, frustrations remain among Republican leaders, who argue Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson is slow rolling compliance with their subpoena.
More than six months ago, Rep. Rachelle Smit (R-Martin), who at the time was serving as the minority vice chair of the House elections committee, made a request to the Michigan Department of State seeking access to the Bureau of Elections e-learning portal, which provides education and training materials for the state’s election clerks.
While Smit’s office went back and forth with the Department of State, with Smit later filing a request in her official capacity as the chair of the now-renamed Elections Integrity Committee, she ultimately brought the matter before the House Oversight Committee, which issued a subpoena to the Secretary of State requesting any materials that had not already been provided by May 13 to Committee Chair Jay DeBoyer (R-Clay Township).
Although the Department has been working to fulfill Smit and DeBoyer’s requests, a May 7 response to the subpoena from Assistant Attorney General Heather Meingast on behalf of Benson’s office reiterated security concerns in releasing these training documents to the Oversight Committee without review and redaction that would “reveal security feature information or other sensitive information jeopardizes the [voting] process.”
https://michiganadvance.com/2025/05/14/dispute-over-election-training-materials-continues-as-benson-releases-additional-documents/