Michigan Voter-Registration Investigation

This section covers FBI Detroit Field Office case 56D-DE-3407960 (with a predecessor assessment 56-DE-3249380), an investigation into allegations of fraudulent voter-registration applications submitted to the Muskegon City Clerk's Office (MCCO) in the fall of 2020. The matter originated with the Michigan State Police (MSP), Michigan Attorney General (MAG), and Muskegon City/County Police Department (referred to in the documents as MCPD/MUPD), which referred it to the FBI; the MCCO reported receiving roughly 8,000–10,000 registration applications, an undetermined number of which showed indicators of fraud (non-existent addresses, invalid phone numbers, mismatched signatures, and repeated handwriting). The documents describe canvassers employed by an organization — an entity whose name is redacted throughout most records but which appears in the file titles and one email chain as "GBI Strategies" — who were paid via reloadable/prepaid debit cards, and multiple canvasser witnesses admitted or reported that fake voter registrations were submitted, in some cases to meet daily quotas. The record traces DOJ Public Integrity Section (PIN) consultations that repeatedly limited the scope of the investigation, and the case was ultimately declined for prosecution and closed. Names of subjects, agents, prosecutors, and the employing organization are redacted (`[REDACTED]`) in nearly all documents; OCR errors are frequent and are marked `[OCR unclear]` where the text is not reliably legible.