Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson and Attorney General Dana Nessel aren’t interested in hearing about election fraud from Detroit community leaders Ramon Jackson and Pastor Lorenzo Sewell.

“They eventually just stopped returning our calls,” Jackson testified before the House Election Integrity Committee on Tuesday. “They refuse to take action.”

Despite meeting with representatives for both Benson and Nessel to share evidence of voter fraud in the Motor City, the men contend they’ve been stonewalled and ignored.

Benson and Nessel have also opposed their efforts to expose the fraud through a federal lawsuit that contends election officials are registering former city residents as absentee voters without their knowledge.

“If we don’t have fair elections, we’re like China,” Sewell told the committee. “We have literally become what we hate, if we don’t have fair elections.”

“We have iron clad, bear trap, hand-in-the-cookie-jar proof,” he said. “We have a proprietary system to detect and determine cheating in every election.”

Jackson explained he and other Detroit activists first uncovered the fraud after securing a voting list for District 3 from the 2022 election amid an effort to recall a city council member.

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“I seen my friend on the list who I know had moved out of Detroit, who I know don’t vote,” he testified, adding that he confirmed as much with the friend. “He had lived in Detroit 47 years, he had never been registered to vote, he ain’t never voted in his life,” he added.

“Soon as he moved from Detroit, they registered him back to Detroit to his old address without his knowledge and … put him on the permanent absentee voter list and started casting ballots in his name,” Jackson said.

Voter records show the friend cast absentee ballots in four elections on a straight Democratic ticket.

Jackson later realized the same thing with his own voting history after moving from Detroit.

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“Sure enough, pull my history and I find out when I changed my license over to Ohio, I became registered to vote back in Detroit without my knowledge,” Jackson said. “So now I’m saying this is a pattern going on here.”

He eventually discovered dozens of others, including several who have since signed affidavits about the fraudulent registrations and votes.

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

State and local election officials have denied any fraud, with Detroit Council President Mary Sheffield insisting last year “there is no voter fraud in the city of Detroit,” Bridge Detroit reports.

Last week, Attorney General Dana Nessel’s office responded to Jackson’s federal lawsuit and alleged all of those detailed in the complaint were registered to vote through driver’s license transactions, Jackson said.

“What we discovered is that they’re preying on people with low or no voter history who’re transitioning, moving place to place in Detroit, unstable housing, and then when they move out of Detroit, we are being registered back to Detroit unlawfully without our knowledge, and they’re saying this is being done through a driver’s license transaction,” he said.

Jackson distributed a packet to committee members with the details, including affidavits, and went through numerous examples with lawmakers.

“We’re not speculating that they’re doing this, they are 100% using people who don’t vote and registering them back to Detroit,” he said, noting none appeared at the alleged drivers license transactions and all voted for Democrats, including Nessel, Benson, and Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.

“The secretary of state is fraudulently registering people,” Jackson said.

Benson, who steadfastly opposed all efforts to vet the state’s bloated voter rolls in 2024, announced in January she will oversee her own election to replace a term-limited Whitmer in 2026.

She has spent the months since campaigning against efforts in Michigan and Washington, D.C. to require proof of citizenship to vote.

“These reports and claims have been very concerning, especially since we are repeatedly told that our elections are completely safe and secure,” House Speaker Pro Tem Rachelle Smit, the Martin Republican who chairs the election integrity committee, said Tuesday. “If these claims are accurate, and the scale and scope are this bad, then Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson and Attorney General Dana Nessel clearly aren’t doing their jobs, and they’re failing the people of Michigan.”