LANSING, Mich. – Today, Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson upheld her obligation to protect sensitive information related to election security in response to legislative subpoenas issued by Michigan House Committee on Oversight. The Michigan Department of State (MDOS) provided an additional 300 pages of materials to the committee that are available for public review at Michigan.gov/ElectionTransparency.

“I believe in oversight and transparency and that’s precisely why our department has voluntarily complied with this request, providing thousands of pages of documents used to train and educate our local clerks,” Secretary Benson said. “However, I also have a duty to protect the security of our elections from politicians seeking information that would enable someone to interfere with the chain of custody of ballots, tamper with election equipment, or impersonate a clerk on Election Day. We’ll continue to work with the chair of the committee to explain these realities and we’ll do the same in a court of law.”

With the additional documents released today, MDOS has provided more than 3,300 pages of election administration training documents to the House Oversight Committee. This is the fifth time in as many months that the department has released documents initially requested by the Chair of the House Committee on Election Integrity.

READ: Letter to House Committee on Oversight – Michigan Department of Attorney General 

MDOS will continue to release additional materials to the committee and on the public site once the department’s legal and election security teams have reviewed them and redacted any sensitive information within those materials.

For more information, including all 3,300+ pages of materials produced for the House Oversight Committee, visit Michigan.gov/ElectionTransparency.