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Jocelyn Benson: “The goal and the scheme at the time, which is now been made…”

Featuring: Jocelyn Benson, Democratic | Secretary of State of Michigan

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The Fight to Protect the 2024 Election with Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson

Published | Video Starts at 14:53

But I remember coming home that night and thinking, they won this round because. And it was a critical round for them because, as you said, it was the first challenge, real challenge, to a certification. The goal and the scheme at the time, which is now been made quite clear, was to block certification at Wayne county, use that to block certification at the state level in Michigan. And though court cases would play out to ultimately compel certification, it would create this air of uncertainty that they could take to other states, like Pennsylvania, which was going … (14:53–15:04)

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Asserts that there was a scheme to block election certification in Wayne County to affect state-level certification.

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