Ramon Jackson calls himself “The Advocate” and in that role he says he has uncovered election fraud in Detroit.

According to Jackson, someone has been casting absentee ballots on behalf of individuals who have never voted before or have moved from Detroit. He supports his allegations with evidence from the voting list for District 3 from the 2022 election.

Jackson obtained the voting list as part of his efforts to recall a District 3 City Council member. On that list was a name he recognized, John F. Kennedy, an acquaintance of Jackson’s who had moved from Detroit to Roseville in 2018. “In 2020, based on information and belief, the Detroit Election Department fraudulently registered Mr. Kennedy as a permanent absentee voter without his knowledge, consent or permission,” Jackson recounted in his legal complaint naming Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, the Detroit Department of Elections, and Detroit Clerk Janice Winfrey as defendants.

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Attempts by The Midwesterner to get comments from the defendants in the case were unanswered. The case was dismissed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, claiming Jackson lacked legal standing.

Jackson’s Statement of Facts continued: “Mr. Kennedy is a 51-year-old man who has never voted in his entire life. Mr. Kennedy during this time did not know what an absentee ballot form was[.] Mr. Kennedy isn’t aware of any of the 2020 or 2022 candidates that ran for public office during those years, so he never voted for any of those candidates. From a more logical point of view, ‘Mr. Kennedy lived in Detroit most of his life, but never voted in Detroit. He moved away, then decides to vote in the city of Detroit for the first time, after moving away.'”

Jackson asserts Kennedy isn’t the only person caught up in the alleged absentee ballot scam. In fact, Jackson learned that he himself was “fraudulently registered to vote on January 19, 2017, in Detroit, after moving temporarily to Southgate in 2015, then Toledo, Ohio in 2016.”

Furthermore, Jackson told The Midwesterner that he never possessed any identification with the address that appeared on his registration nor did he ever claim the Coyle Street address as a permanent, temporary, or voting address.

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“Within two years after relocation from Detroit, … are being re-registered at their previous addresses after leaving,” Jackson stated. “Ghost/fraudulent voters are being registered at resident’s homes without the homeowner’s or voters’ knowledge.”

Jackson further alleged Detroit is inflating the number of actual residents registered to vote. He cited Detroit’s claim that 506,000 residents in 2020 were registered to vote. He claims the mathematics don’t work if the total population of the Motor City is only 639,000 and approximately 25% (157,000) was under the legal voting age of 18. That would leave only 483,000 people over the age of 18.

“Based on information and belief, the number of registered voters are contrived and illegally inflated; which hinder residents of Detroit and throughout the state to gauge an accurate number of voters who turned out for the Detroit and statewide election,” Jackson wrote.

To bolster his argument that the voter list irregularities are fraud and not merely clerical errors, Jackson names other glaring incidents. For example, his investigation revealed five individuals registered to vote in a vacant house on Detroit’s Minock Street.

“There are dozens of others who meet this pattern; fraudulently listed as registered voters and fake votes cast on behalf of these voters,” Jackson wrote.