Detroit 2020 Election Document Investigation Reveals WHOPPING 12.4% of Absentee Ballots Are MISSING OFFICIAL ENVELOPE Required By Law From 51 Taxpayer-Subsidized Housing Addresses
Our incredible team of volunteers and election experts is currently reviewing nearly one million documents from Detroit and Wayne County’s November 2020 election — the same records a judge finally forced the City of Detroit to turn over after they repeatedly denied Yehuda Miller’s FOIA requests.
This is long, grueling, and often tedious work. Many of the documents arrived in completely out-of-order. Our team — led by Phani Mantravadi’s (founder of Check My Vote) technical expertise — built a custom website to organize and display them. Thanks to Phani Mantravadi, we now have successfully digitized and sequenced over 155,000 absentee ballot envelopes by counting board, allowing our volunteers to meticulously examine every single one for irregularities and fraud.
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Volunteers are entering critical data — flagging every questionable, fraudulent, or illegally accepted ballot envelope that Detroit officials rubber-stamped in 2020.
Before we release our findings to the public, we check, double-check, and, in some cases, even triple-check our work to ensure accuracy.
We are proud to be able to release our third in a series of bombshell findings from the almost one million documents we are reviewing from Detroit’s Nov. 2020 Election:
An Astounding 12.4% of All Absentee Votes in Taxpayer-Subsidized Housing Do Not Have An Accompanying Envelope Required By Michigan Law.
As part of our research into why we have such a the disparity in the number of absentee ballots as compared to absentee ballot envelopes we decided to run a sample of absentee-only voters living at addresses of 51 taxpayer-subsidized housing units in Detroit to see what we would find. Once we identified the absentee voters who allegedly voted “absentee” from these addresses, we matched their names and addresses to the absentee envelopes we obtained through Yehuda Miller’s FOIA lawsuit. When our research was complete, we were stunned to discover a whopping 12.4% of the alleged absentee voters voted but don’t have any record of an acccompnaying envelope, which is required by law when voting absentee in Michigan for the vote to be counted.
So, what happened to all of the missing absentee envelopes and who counted all of the ballots, knowing that that are legally required to be sealed inside of an absentee ballot envelope?
Michigan law is very clear — the official return envelope with the voter’s signature is a core security requirement. Clerks are legally obligated to enforce it, and knowingly bypassing it is a felony.
Under MCL 168.764a, every absentee ballot must be returned in the official state-issued return envelope (the outer envelope that contains the voter’s signature certificate on the back).
The voter is required to place the marked ballot inside the secrecy sleeve, then place that sleeve inside the official return envelope, and sign and date the certificate on the back.
A ballot received without the proper official return envelope (or without a valid voter signature on that envelope) does not meet the legal requirements and is not eligible to be counted.
Clerks do not have the discretion to ignore the envelope requirement or process ballots received without one.
Knowingly processing absentee ballots that were not returned in the proper official return envelope is a serious violation of Michigan Election Law:
It is treated as election fraud under MCL 168.932.
This is a felony.
Penalty: Up to 5 years in prison and/or a substantial fine.
If done on a large scale (e.g., thousands of ballots), it can also trigger additional charges for official misconduct or conspiracy.
Now that we have evidence, obtained via FOIA from the City of Detroit, showing that absentee ballots were counted without envelopes, will anyone be held accountable?
Did Detroit City Clerk Janice Winfrey know about the absentee ballots that were being counted without ballot envelopes?
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/05/bombshell-detroit-2020-election-document-investigation-reveals-whopping/