BOMBSHELL: 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

New Jersey resident Yehuda Miller, Check My Vote founder Phani Mantravadi, and Patty McMurray of The Gateway Pundit have joined forces with over 100 incredibly dedicated volunteers in one of the largest citizen-led election integrity investigations in American history.

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.

Please consider giving to this VOLUNTEER effort, with over 100 individuals dedicating up to 12 hours a day to help us complete this project before the midterm election. We have a GiveSendGo account set up to help fund this project, and we humbly ask you to consider making a contribution to support our work, as we receive no outside or government funds.

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?

In 2020, Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson was admonished by a judge for mailing 7.7 million unsolicited voter applications to every “eligible” voter in the state without proper approval. She also directed local clerks to ignore signature verification requirements during the largest mail-in election in Michigan history, where proper signatures and strict chain-of-custody rules — including the mandatory use of official absentee ballot envelopes — were essential to ensuring a free and fair election.

We will soon release the full, astounding discrepancy between the number of absentee ballots received versus the number of official absentee ballot envelopes submitted by the City of Detroit. But for now, we can say with a high degree of confidence that, in our small sample of taxpayer-subsidized housing facilities, 12.4% of absentee ballots were counted without the official absentee ballot envelope required by Michigan law.

We’d like to especially thank our army of volunteers who made this research possible. Without committed volunteers entering the data of over 155K envelopes and reviewing them multiple times for accuracy, we would not have been able to make these critical findings. 

This is a costly project, and to date, it has been exclusively funded by Yehuda Miller. Massive FOIA costs were incurred to obtain the documents from the City of Detroit and Wayne County, and costly storage fees were incurred to keep the almost 1 million documents in a secure facility. Check My Vote founder Phani Mantravadi: Hundreds of hours to develop and maintain the website used by volunteers to review documents and enter data in an easy-to-use format he created. Data storage and maintenance fees, as well as hundreds of more hours needed to train volunteers and to organize and make necessary updates/changes to the website. Please consider donating HERE to help our project continue.

Here are a few of the absentee ballots our incredible team of volunteers has already flagged as having “issues.”

Let’s begin with this “voter,” who is registered to vote and voted from a NON-EXISTENT address in Detroit. We have confirmed that 8286 Auburn St., Detroit, MI, is a fake address. This “voter” successfully registered to vote from this address and received an absentee ballot in the 2020 election. According to the official City of Detroit “Received” date stamp, his absentee ballot envelope was received on the day before the election. The “Clerks Only” section of the envelope reveals that this “voter” from a fraudulent address was given ballot #8574. Curiously, this voter has now been wiped clean from the Michigan voter rolls.

The absentee ballot envelope below shows a German address on the envelope label. The white label is what is used by the USPS to deliver the ballot. According to the date next to the voter’s signature, the envelope was signed on Oct. 30, 2020, and received (according to the official City of Detroit stamp) on October 30. We’ve been hearing for decades that our USPS service is inefficient. Apparently, when it comes to absentee ballots in Detroit, they defy all odds and deliver overseas mail on the same day.

Curiously, this voter did not use the UOCAVA (Uniformed Overseas Civilian Absentee Voter Act) form of voting, which allows them to skip the requirement to prove that they are a US citizen, that they have never lived in the US, and that they can literally choose any address in Michigan and say that some member of their family once lived there to register to vote. Contrast their ballot to the ballots below, which show two UOCAVA voters (red envelopes). Both voters’ ballots were mailed to an address in Detroit, despite their official registration listing a forwarding address in Israel. Both UOCAVA voters cast absentee ballots in the November 2020 election.

Remember, UOCAVA voters don’t have to prove that they live at a particular address in Michigan or that they ever did to vote in Michigan’s elections. The rules for overseas voters are much more lax than they are for US citizens living in the USA.

This absentee ballot envelope was not signed or dated. There is a handwritten note stating that the ballot was “rejected” because there is “no sig.” The person was, nevertheless, issued ballot number 0387, and according to the official voter rolls, despite the “rejected” ballot, voted absentee in the Nov. 2020 election. The line below the signature clearly states: THE ABOVE FORM MUST BE SIGNED OR YOUR VOTE WILL NOT BE COUNTED.”

The absentee ballot envelope shown below was processed at the post office on 8/4/2020. Detroit’s Primary election was August 4, 2020. The official USPS stamp reveals that this absentee ballot envelope was received on the day of the primary election, but was stamped and dated for the November general election. According to the “Clerk’s Only section, the voter received ballot #0070 and appears to have been counted in the Nov. election, as the voter is recorded as “voted” in the 2020 election.

The voter dated this absentee ballot envelope “May 6, 2020”. The first day the absentee ballots were available to voters in 2020 was September 24. The ballot was marked “Received” on October 9, 2020, and the voter was issued a ballot (#0633).

These ballots were all signed and dated AFTER the date they were received, as indicated by the official City of Detroit stamp. Unfortunately, the envelope signed date appearing after the official time stamp is an all-too-common occurrence in Detroit.

Fortunately, for this voter, the person processing this envelope (or someone offsite who handled these envelopes after they were received) was able to change the official timestamp with an ink pen (see the red arrow below pointing to the handwritten date change).

This envelope was signed by the voter on October 6, 2020, given the official City of Detroit “Received” stamp on October 8, 2020, and also given a completely different handwritten “received” date of October 15.

This absentee ballot envelope was signed on Sept. 30, 2020, and received on Oct. 1, 2020, according to the official City of Detroit stamp, but we’re not sure how it was delivered, since the address label is completely scribbled out and unreadable. Of course, the voter was issued a ballot (#0007)

There is no way to determine when this envelope was received, as it has SIX official time stamps from the city clerk, each showing a different or illegible date.

These are just some of the ballot issues we’ve uncovered. Many of the issues we’ve found should have prevented election officials from processing the ballots, but they were processed anyway. We will continue to share more examples of our findings as we diligently pore through these absentee ballot envelopes. Although we have over 100 volunteers signed up to help us with this project, we have a long way to go, and our expenses are mounting. We have decided not to turn this project over to the government or to an outside group that might taint the evidence or miss some of our critical findings. Please consider supporting our efforts by donating any amount you can afford to our Give Send Go account HERE.

We knew from the day after the 2020 election that Detroit’s election results could not be trusted. No one has done more than the Gateway Pundit to uncover the fraud in Michigan. From proving the late-night drop of tens of thousands of ballots at the TCF Center on the morning after the election by paying to get the security footage from the TCF Center that revealed the white van making not one, but two deliveries of ballots around 3:30 am on the day after the election, to our exclusive story that exposed the statewide GBI Strategies voter application scam that our Attorney Genertal Dana Nessel and Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson hid from the clerks and from the citizens of Michigan, to providing footage of the Detroit absentee ballot drop boxes that showed dozens of individuals and teams of people dropping off stacks of ballots (in violation of Michigan law) while recording themselves, we have exposed instance after instance of blatant fraud. Yet, nothing has been done to correct it or hold the people who’ve been covering it up responsible. We hope to change that with this investigation, after we provide irrefutable proof of fraud.

In another release of our findings to the public, we shared images of “ghost voter” ballots where voters inexplicably filled in ovals for write-in candidates below the spaces where the candidates’ names were printed, but left the accompanying name spaces entirely blank, effectively creating invalid votes that required manual review but contributed to no specific candidate. While we can’t explain why this pattern was repeated on over 10,000 ballots, we have learned that when something like this happens, the ballots would typically be adjudicated and potentially rerun through the tabulators.

It’s important to note that these “ghost votes” occurred on both absentee and election-day ballots. This comparison was prepared by Phillip Davis, a member of our 2020 Detroit election results review team. 

Here is a sample of what the ballots looked like:

HEY, @JocelynBenson, DO YOU KNOW HOW THIS HAPPENED AND WHY NO ONE WAS TOLD ABOUT IT during or after your “perfectly secure” election?

OVER 10K ballots from Detroit’s 2020 election have ovals filled in for write-in candidates with no candidates name next to the oval. This is a… pic.twitter.com/OvVqT8s7BI

— PattyMI (@PattyLovesTruth) January 8, 2026

We take the research of the documents from Detroit’s November 2020 election very seriously and understand that the information we make public could lead to criminal charges.

The future of our elections hangs in the balance, and for far too long, patriotic Americans have sat back and allowed our sacred elections to be brazenly stolen while the radical left laughed in our faces. We can no longer afford to look the other way.

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