Election Integrity Force tells House committee it found registration and absentee-ballot irregularities in Michigan

The House Election Integrity Committee heard from Chris Kayala, a representative of Election Integrity Force (EIF), who told the committee on Zoom that his volunteers’ analysis found what he described as widespread irregularities in Michigan’s Qualified Voter File (QVF) and in absentee voter (AV) ballot records.

Kayala said EIF is a statewide, unpaid volunteer group that conducts canvassing and data analysis to check election records. “We don't care who gets elected, what we care about is whether the process is good,” he told the committee during his presentation, adding that his group’s work focuses on “transparent and trusted elections.”

Kayala said his analysis found a large and unexplained increase in registrations in multiple counties after 2020, and characterized many registrations on the QVF as “dead wood” that should be cleaned from the rolls. Using Muskegon County as a case study, he said the county’s registration file showed a gain of roughly 17,000 registrations in 2020 that he and local canvassers judged implausible given the area’s population growth. He said EIF could not account for roughly 6,000 voters reported as having voted in 2022 whose records…