According to the Michigan Secretary of State, “There are no elections scheduled at this time.”

That’s the message — or “misinformation” — Jocelyn Benson is sending to voters who log in to the Michigan Voter Information website to verify their voting information, and confirm they’re registered to vote.

Joe Moss, co-founder of Ottawa Impact, a conservative nonprofit “comprised of courageous parents who love kids and love truth,” highlighted the issue in a post to X on Wednesday that poses a couple of important questions.

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“The official Michigan website say there are NO scheduled elections at this time. Is @JocelynBenson too busy campaigning for Harris to get this updated?” Moss wrote. “49 days to go, 9 days until absentee ballots. Is this a form of election interference or suppression?”

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It was still not updated as of Wednesday morning:

Moss’ post includes screenshots of the response he received from the Michigan Voter Information website, as well as a Tuesday editorial in The Detroit News by Assistant Editorial Page Editor Kaitlyn Buss.

“Jocelyn Benson has turned the office of secretary of state into a full-blown Democratic operation, shamelessly using her position as Michigan’s chief elections officer to campaign for herself and Kamala Harris – and to manipulate the state’s ballot to favor Democrats in the presidential election and beyond,” Buss wrote, pointing to Benson’s efforts to keep third-party candidates on or off the ballot.

“Benson spoke at a Women for Harris event Wednesday night, blatantly campaigning for the vice president. And she has eroded trust in the voting system by continuously stigmatizing Republicans and others who question Michigan’s rapidly evolving election process,” according to Buss.

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Years ago, in Benson’s first failed campaign for secretary of state, the former “hate crimes” investigator for the discredited Southern Poverty Law Center argued on her campaign website “our Secretary of State must operate the office in a nonpartisan manner.”

“That’s why upon taking office I will take an Oath of Nonpartisanship, pledging to the citizens of Michigan a neutral and nonpartisan administration,” the website read. “That means you won’t find me co-chairing any campaigns or endorsing any candidates in elections which I serve as the final certifier of election results.”

In November 2023, Benson endorsed Adam Hollier in his unsuccessful bid to challenge first-term Congressman Shri Thanedar, D-Detroit.

“As a resident of Detroit for the last two decades I wanted to tell you how proud I am to endorse Adam Holier to be the next member of Congress from my home district,” Benson said in her video endorsement.

Benson even signed Hollier’s nominating petition, after the circulator signed and dated the document.

Her signature was among hundreds that were later deemed invalid in a challenge from Thanedar that ultimately knocked Hollier out of contention.

In addition to breaking the Oath of Nonpartisanship with Hollier’s endorsement, and repeatedly campaigning on behalf of Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris and other Democratic candidates, Republicans have sued Benson over an agreement with the Biden-Harris administration to leverage Small Business Administration and Veterans Affairs offices she’s used to promote voting in Democratic areas of the state.

It’s the same deal with youth voter outreach, with Benson hosting events in Lansing, Detroit, Flint, Grand Rapids, Marquette, Traverse City, Highland Park, and Battle Creek – all areas that voted overwhelmingly for President Joe Biden in 2020.

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Those events have been coordinated with organizations including Black Voters Matter, the Michigan Department of State Collegiate Student Advisory Task Force, NAACP Detroit, League of Women Voters, APIA Vote, and other decidedly left-leaning groups.

Benson’s get-out-the-vote efforts come as she’s casting her office as the Ministry of Truth, calling on Michiganders to report neighbors for election misinformation and imploring the media to help Democrats “protect the minds of voters” in the lead up to the 2024 election.

She’s also working to implement election law changes now that take effect in 2025, including a ban on county canvassers investigating fraud, fighting numerous lawsuits from the Republican National Committee to strengthen election integrity, threatening election officials who don’t automatically certify election results, and promoting the Trump national abortion ban lie.

It’s for those reasons and more – from Benson’s refusal to purge the state’s bloated voter rolls, to court rulings declaring her election guidance unconstitutional – that former Secretary of State Ruth Johnson has dubbed Benson “Michigan’s most partisan Secretary of State who has violated more laws and the Constitution than all the secretary of states in recent history.”

“People should expect and demand that their election officials act without bias, rather than trying to place a thumb on the scale,” Johnson, now a Republican state senator from Holly, told The Midwesterner.

Benson’s bias is particularly concerning, according to Buss, because “she may be running the election for her own bid for governor” in 2026.