← Michigan Voter-Registration Investigation

Worker Interviews — Sit In Car / Make Up Names

FBI FD-302 interview reportDec 13, 20232 pagesFBIMichigan Worker Interview Sit In Car Fake Registrations RELEASE MARKED.pdf

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  • A worker stated his girlfriend told him 'you can just make up names on the form and get paid,' and he would sit in his car the whole shift and put down the name of a friend or relative to have something to turn in.

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  • The same worker said he never collected real names, only fabricated names, while being paid by the hour for a voter-registration job he worked for about one week.

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  • A first subject, who was on parole and had recently registered to vote for the first time in 2020, denied any involvement with the organization but had his personal information (including a misread SSAN digit) appear on a Canvasser Contract, suggesting possible identity theft.

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4 sourced claims

First subject: stated he never heard of the organization, does not know anyone who works there, and never worked a voter-registration job; he raised prior identity-theft issues and suggested someone with his information may have gotten a job with those companies; agents read information from the Canvasser Contract, and he initially misread one SSAN digit then confirmed the corrected information (p.1).

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That subject was on parole (MDOC), released from prison in March 2020; the 2020 election was the first time he registered to vote and voted (p.1).

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Second subject (called 12/15/2023): remembered working for a company for about one week tasked with finding people to register to vote; could not recall the company name; his girlfriend also worked there and recruited him, telling him "you can just make up names on the form and get paid"; he was paid by the hour (p.1).

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He said he would just sit in his car the whole shift and put down the name of a friend or relative to have something to turn in with his clipboard; he never collected real names (p.2).

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