GOP Secures Major Ballot-Security Victory in Michigan to Close Out 2025

Rest up today, readers, for tomorrow is the dawning of 2026 – and that means we're on a collision course with the midterm elections.

I wrote a bit yesterday about what the Democrat Party has planned for 2026, calling it their same old "slop." (It's a VIP article, so if you're not already one our VIPs, go to the bottom of this article and grab the 74 percent off a membership!)

In addition to starting the new year with a rehash of J6 – Democratic House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries is inviting his colleagues mark the fifth anniversary by "examin[ing] ongoing threats to free and fair elections posed by an out-of-control Trump administration" – the Dems plan to paint the Trump administration's efforts to curb violence in blue cities as an intimidation tactic meant to keep people from voting.

Same old slop, right?

The left also will try to polish that "election interference" turd by calling into question the motive behind the administration's insistence that states clean up their voter rolls ahead of the 2026 elections. David Becker, a former Justice Department voting rights attorney and executive director of the Center for Election Innovation & Research, is getting a jumpstart on the scare mongering, saying, “They’re trying to use the power of the executive to bully states into turning over highly sensitive data — date of birth, Social Security numbers, driver’s license, the Holy Trinity of identity theft — hand it over to the DOJ for who knows what use.”

Justice Department Now Suing 4 More States for Refusing to Fork Over Voter Rolls Data

As RedState has previously reported, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) is now suing 22 states for failing to produce their full voter registration lists upon request from the federal government. “The law is clear: states need to give us this information, so we can do our duty to protect American citizens from vote dilution,” said Assistant Attorney General Harmeet K. Dhillon of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division.

It turns out the Republican National Committee (RNC) also committed significant resources this year to election integrity efforts, and, according to an RNC press release, they just scored a big win in Michigan after a court ordered Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson "to stop counting absentee ballots with missing or mismatched ballot numbers unless voters properly cure them."

RNC Chairman Joe Gruters celebrated the decision, saying, “This is a clear victory for election integrity. The court reaffirmed that ballots with missing or mismatched numbers cannot be counted under Michigan law and ordered Secretary Benson to follow a lawful, commonsense process to protect the vote. Democrats don’t get to bend the rules to make it easier to cheat."

The Michigan win caps off a year of victories for the RNC, which reports 134 total active election-related cases, including 115 election integrity cases and over 150 investigatory and regulatory actions in all 50 states and Washington, D.C.

RNC 2025 Election Integrity Recap https://t.co/ICQbS9Atk9 pic.twitter.com/FsYTgHmj1j
— South Dakota GOP (@SDGOP) December 20, 2025

Chairman Gruters said of the RNC's efforts, “Because of the hard work of our legal and grassroots teams, voters can have greater confidence in the integrity of our elections. I’m proud of what we accomplished in 2025, and we’re ready to build on that momentum in the year ahead.”

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