This is the most important investigative piece I have ever worked on in my 15 years of reporting.
Before I report our findings, I want to thank Yehuda Miller of New Jersey for never giving up on the belief that Detroit’s election was stolen in November 2020.
I also want to thank the brilliant (an understatement) Phani Mantravadi for his tireless contribution to this project. In addition to his patience and guidance on all the technical aspects, he also uploaded and sorted almost a million documents on his Check My Vote website, so that over 100 well-trained volunteers could painstakingly enter the data from each and every envelope into a data field that would create a permanent record of each envelope and tie it to a registered voter. The actual envelope image would then be placed side by side with the voter’s registration and vote history from Detroit’s November and December 2020 Qualified Voter Files.
To be clear: Phani, Yehuda, and I are not working alone on this historic project.
In only 9 months, we’ve created a powerhouse investigative team of all volunteers who are the most dedicated and committed individuals I have ever known. These smart, ambitious, and hard-working Americans from across the country have given up family time, vacations, special events, and stolen personal time from their lives to make this monumental task bear fruit we could only have dreamed of.
It All Started With a Text Message From Yehuda Miller
In September 2025, I received a text from Yehuda Miller telling me that he was in Detroit and asked if we could meet. Little did I know that when I met him, Yehuda Miller would be driving a rented U-Haul truck filled with almost 1 million copies of the absentee ballot applications, absentee envelopes, absentee and in-person ballots, poll books, precinct tapes, and more from Detroit’s 2020 election. Not only did Yehuda possess hard copies of the documents, but he also had electronic files of the scanned documents. Yehuda’s only goal was to ensure that everything he had worked so hard to get would be made public. We couldn’t agree more, which is why we will always report our findings to you, the public, before turning them over to the proper authorities, where investigations often take years to complete and are conducted in total secrecy.
Yehuda brilliantly filed a FOIA request with the City of Detroit and Wayne County for all election documents from the November 2020 election, before the official deadline to destroy them. When his initial request was (of course) rejected, he filed a FOIA lawsuit, which he won, forcing the City of Detroit and Wayne County to comply and hand over the documents.
Absentee Envelope Requirements
In 2020, Michigan Election law required every absentee ballot to be accompanied by an absentee ballot envelope with a signature for verification.
MCL 168.764a (Instructions for Absent Voters):
Step 4: “Place the ballot or ballots in the return envelope and securely seal the return envelope.”
Step 5: “Sign and date the return envelope in the place designated. Your signature must appear on the return envelope or the ballot will not be counted.”
In addition to the voter’s signature and the date they signed the envelope, the envelope included an official time-and-date stamp from the clerk’s office to prove when it was received. Additionally, the City of Detroit (sometimes) provided a precinct number, an absentee counting board number (where the ballot was sent to be processed when it reached the TCF Center and was assigned to its proper counting board or AVCB), and a ballot number.
The unique number on the ballot inside the ballot envelope must match the ballot number written on the outside of the ballot envelope in order to be counted.
If there is no envelope, there is no signature and no ballot number to compare — in other words, there is no verification process and no chain of custody.
What We Discovered
Our work on the Detroit absentee envelope review began in December 2025 and was finally completed on July 9, 2026.
After entering the data for each envelope, each name and address on the envelope was paired with the registered voter in either the November or December 2020 Qualified Voter Files (QVF). Each envelope was then reviewed 2-4 times for accuracy. Once the envelope image was paired with the registered voter in the QVF, it would appear under their matching voter registration and voter history on the Check My Vote website.
When we first received the envelopes, they were a mess. They were out of order, upside down, and sideways. Phani Mantravadi sorted and organized every envelope to make it easy for the researchers to review them in order of AVCB. Although the City of Detroit published its official report stating that it counted 174,384 absentee ballots toward Detroit’s final total of 250,219, Yehuda Miller was given only 155,487 absentee envelopes as part of his FOIA fulfillment agreement.
At the outset of our investigation, we knew there was a shocking deficit of absentee ballots compared to the required absentee envelopes, but after checking, double- and then triple-checking the data on each envelope and comparing them to the registered voters on file, we were able to prove (using evidence provided by the City of Detroit) that an incredible 26,901 absentee ballots lacked the legally required accompanying absentee ballot envelope.
Why It Matters
Some may say that almost 26,901 votes could not have changed the election’s outcome in a state where President Trump “lost” by over 150,000 votes and John James was “defeated” by Gary Peters in the US Senate race by a narrow margin of 92,335 votes statewide. But if this pattern of 15.43 % of unaccompanied absentee ballots were to repeat itself in every Democrat stronghold city in Michigan, it could very well have changed the outcome of the election. In reality, every vote that’s stolen in Detroit cancels the vote of a legitimate voter elsewhere in the state. Detroit’s 26,901 absentee ballots counted without the required envelope quickly negate the 2020 absentee votes from large and mid-sized cities, as well as smaller communities across Michigan.
In November 2020, an estimated 26,920 absentee ballots in total were cast in 7 small, medium, and large cities across Michigan:
Gaylord, with a high population of active-duty and veterans, had an absentee voter population of approx. 2,720; Traverse City – 6,900; Lake Orion and Clarkston – a combined 4,300; Hillsdale – 2,300; Mackinac City – 700; and Bay City- 10,000.
No matter where you live in a state, when votes are stolen, they are stolen from everyone in the state. And when it’s a federal election, those votes are ultimately stolen from every legitimate voter in America.
We Need Your Help
As we step into the next phase of our project, which will include matching application signatures to the signatures on the ballot envelopes, I am going to shamelessly ask for donations to our ALL VOLUNTEER project to help us hire professional handwriting experts or obtain expert handwriting analysis software to ensure accuracy. Every dollar you contribute to this project will lead us to our next discovery. Please consider making a donation of any dollar amount to help us with this historic project. We currently have more evidence from the 2020 general election than anyone in America. Purchasing scanners for our volunteer researchers has been an invaluable tool for researching voter IDs on envelopes and applications. Check My Vote, run by Phani Mantravadi, another volunteer, is constantly in need of upgrades and improvements.
Every Detroit absentee envelope had an address label that was (supposed to be) printed by the Detroit Clerk’s office and mailed to every individual who completed an absentee ballot application. Our team identified approximately 5-6 different label styles affixed to the absentee envelopes, raising several important questions, not the least of which is: Where were the labels printed, and who affixed them to the envelopes?
We found a high percentage of absentee ballot envelopes had incorrect addresses, misspelled names, and were missing required signatures and dates. Official time stamps by the clerk’s office were missing or stamped before the date the voter signed the envelope. Many contained non-Detroit mailing addresses with no corresponding Detroit address on file to prove the voter was registered to vote in Detroit. A large number of them were signed on the same day they were received at the clerk’s office, which was highly improbable, if not impossible, given that the election was taking place at the height of the COVID pandemic and stories about USPS worker shortages and delays, especially in Detroit, were regularly reported by local news.
We are closing in on completing the first phase of the absentee voter application review, which includes entering data for each of the 170K+ applicants. Many times the names and addresses of the applicants are handwritten. A high percentage of signatures found on the applications are questionable at best. We will soon be able to lay the signed ballot envelopes alongside the signed absentee applications to make it easier to compare each signature.
Following the 2020 election, the Michigan Senate Oversight Committee hastily released a report stating that it found no evidence of widespread voter fraud. The media had a heyday with the report, as three Republican senators signed it and Republican Senator Ed McBroom chaired the committee. Every time a new and credible allegation of fraud was shared, the media would quickly dismiss or discredit it, using the MI Senate report as evidence that there was no evidence of mass voter fraud in Michigan. Would these Republican senators have signed their report if they had this information available to them at the time?
In December 2020, the Wayne County Board of Canvassers Chair Monica Palmer did not want to certify the election, but after the life of her teenage daughter was publicly threatened and her Democratic vice-chair promised his fellow Democrat, Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, would perform a thorough audit of the Detroit election, she caved and agreed to certify the election. Had she been given the opportunity to view the documents we have in our possession, would she, or the now-deceased William Hartmann, have agreed to certify the election?
Never forget, Democrat State Rep Abraham Aiyash, who was running for office at the time, was one of the individuals who made a not-so-thinly veiled threat against Palmer’s daughter. We will have more to say about him in the coming months as it relates to our investigation.
MICHIGAN.
WATCH as Democrat State Rep-Elect Abraham Aiyash threatens the children of Wayne County Board of Canvassers member Monica Palmer.
“I want you to think about what this means for your kids, who probably go to [redacted]”…
*CHILLING*
pic.twitter.com/uX3SRxct6a
— Kyle Becker (@kylenabecker) November 18, 2020
And what about the 16 Michigan GOP electors who cast an alternate slate of electoral votes for President Trump in the event that enough voter fraud was discovered to overturn the election? Will Michigan’s partisan hack Attorney General Dana Nessel offer them a public apology for turning their lives upside down, while Michigan’s top election official stood in front of the media and lied about Detroit’s elections being the safest and most secure in history?
And finally, for everyone who is sick and tired of hearing about criminal behavior while nothing ever seems to be done about it, we plan to turn everything we have over to the proper authorities and let them sort it all out.
Detroit City Clerk Janice Winfrey and Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, who is running for governor in the upcoming election and will be facilitating her own election, need to be held accountable for their actions. Speaking of being held accountable, what about Daniel Baxter, the senior Detroit Department of Elections official, who was responsible for managing the absentee ballot counting operation, supervising election staff, coordinating logistics, and addressing operational issues during the count? And what about Chris Thomas who came out of his 2017 retirement as Michigan’s Director of Elections to accept an appointment as Senior Advisor to Detroit City Clerk Janice Winfrey? Both men oversaw the counting and processing of absentee ballots at each table. Are we to believe that no one, from Detroit Clerk Janice Winfrey to election workers under her direct supervision, to the thuggish supervisors or leader (Daniel Baxter and Chris Thomas), or finally, MI Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, knew nothing of this massive absentee ballot to absentee ballot envelope deficit?
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