You don't delete what you want folks to see!-----Jocelyn Benson’s elections director admits directive to delete voter files violated the law

Michigan Elections Bureau Director Jonathan Brater instructed clerks to delete 2020 election poll book flash drive - Victor Skinner

...focused in part on Brater’s instructions to clerks to delete 2020 election poll book flash drives “by the seventh calendar day following the final canvass and certification of the election unless a petition for recount has been filed,” according to the Michigan Fair Elections Institute.

• Scott refused to delete the poll book drive, and pointed to Michigan election law that states election records “must be carefully preserved and may be destroyed after the expiration of 22 months following the primary or election at which the same were used.”

“My clients are under criminal indictment, in part, because she fulfilled an obligation to preserve election records that you ordered deleted, and you don’t even know whether you gave an illegal order?” Olsen asked Brater...