Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson has a message for county election officials who don’t automatically certify the results of the 2024 election: “We will come for you.”

Benson recently partnered with far-left “journalism” site The Recount to read and respond to “angry election tweets” as part of her ongoing campaign against election “misinformation.”

In a video posted to YouTube, the former “hate crimes” investigator for the Southern Poverty Law Center and aspiring gubernatorial candidate highlighted an X post from “Joan Crawford’s eyebrows” that asked: “Are plans in place in case some counties don’t want to certify?”

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Her answer served as a threat to Michigan’s 83 Boards of County Canvassers that may be faced with legitimate questions about the integrity of local election results in November.

“Yes, in fact we dealt with this in 2020 when some local officials in Wayne County, Mich., our largest county, were pressured to not certify,” Benson said.

“The law is quite clear, these officials have one ministerial duty: to certify our elections. Then it goes up to the state level and then they certify at the state level,” she said.

“So, all that to say if someone were to violate the law and not certify the election at the local level, we will come for you,” Benson said, staring ominously at the camera.

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“So any local certifier thinking of skirting the law and not certifying the vote, don’t even think about it, because we’ll get you,” she continued with a wink.

Benson leveraged other “angry tweets” to mock former President Donald Trump and his supporters, troll voters concerned about the security of ballot drop boxes and a new ban on investigating fraud, and trash the social media site that provided the material for her video. Benson’s scorn for X and its owner, billionaire businessman Elon Musk, follows attacks from the SOS alleging the world’s richest man has failed to prevent “false information.”

In response to a post from Barbra Streisand alleging the Trump campaign is plotting to block election certifications in battleground states, Benson stressed the role of statewide election officials who will “guard and protect the results of every election, regardless of their outcome.”

“We believe in protecting the will of the people and if anyone in our jurisdictions around the state don’t follow the law, we will hold them accountable and ensure the law is followed,” Benson said.

While at least seven different courts have determined that election guidance issued by Benson’s office violates Michigan law, there have been no consequences for the secretary of state for misleading county election officials. Those cases have centered on everything from a ban on carrying firearms at polls, to “presumed validity” of absentee voter signatures, to limits on poll challengers.

More recently, the Michigan Court of Claims found Benson “misapplied the law” when she disqualified independent progressive presidential candidate Cornel West from the Michigan ballot, a move that political observers believe was aimed at protecting Democratic nominee Vice President Kamala Harris.

Other pending litigation is calling for Benson to purge the state’s bloated voter rolls, an issue that earned “RealRobert” mockery from the secretary of state in her video with The Recount.

“Actually, it’s pretty easy to confirm that there is no evidence people who are ineligible to vote participating in our elections,” Benson said. “We don’t send out a ballots unless a live person requests a ballot, and then we verify their identity before sending a ballot out to them.”

Those comments conflict with data from the Republican National Committee that shows nearly 92,000 inactive voters remain on the state’s permanent mail ballot list. Benson has fought efforts in court to remove those ineligible voters from Michigan’s bloated voter rolls, which contain 105% of the number of legal voters in the state.

“Michigan’s failure to maintain its permanent mail ballot list in compliance with the law has created a system which is open to fraud,” RNC Chairman Michael Whatley said. “With almost 92,000 inactive voters slated to automatically receive mail ballots, this is a direct threat to a secure vote.”

Benson has fought litigation from the Public Interest Legal Foundation to remove Michigan voter registrations for folks who died more than three decades ago. At least 26,000 deceased voters remain in the state’s voter registration system, according to a recent PILF documentary highlighting the issue.

There’s also evidence actual voting fraud in Wayne County.

Ramon Jackson, a self-described advocate working to recall a Detroit city council member, detailed numerous Detroit residents he knows who were fraudulently registered a permanent absentee voters. Jackson found someone cast those absentee ballots in on their behalf, though his investigation found they have never voted. The registrations were linked to previous or fraudulent addresses.

Jackson himself was “fraudulently registered to vote on January 19, 2017, in Detroit, after moving temporarily to Southgate in 2015, then Toledo, Ohio in 2016, according to a Statement of Facts included in a lawsuit filed in federal court.

Benson’s recent “angry tweets” video is only the latest effort by the state’s top election official to control the “narrative battle” during this “era of misinformation.”

In late July, Benson partnered with Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel to call on members of the National Press Foundation to help Democrats working on “prebunking” perceived misinformation to “protect the minds of voters.”

Earlier this month, Benson cast her office as the ministry of truth in an election fact sheet that called on Michiganders to report neighbors who spread election “misinformation” to protect “the survival of our democratic process.”

Benson, meanwhile, has promoted “misinformation” about the election on multiple occasions while campaigning for Democrats in recent months, including false claims that “only U.S. citizens can vote” and the Trump “national abortion ban” lie.