In October 2020, only one month before the general election, GBI Strategies, a Democrat-funded group, was caught by the Muskegon and Michigan State Police Departments submitting potentially thousands of false voter registration applications to the Muskegon Clerk’s office.
The offices of Democrat Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson and Democrat Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel each had investigators working with the Michigan State Police on the statewide investigation. According to the key suspect in the investigation, GBI Strategies focused on “canvassing” in urban areas of the state. The Michigan State Police report identifies U.S. Senator Gary Peters (D) and then-presidential candidate Joe Biden as the two campaigns funding the fraudulent voter registration group’s work in the key swing state.
In Minnesota, the FBI investigated a similar voter registration fraud scam involving two individuals and an unnamed “voter registration” group that paid them for each registration they submitted. The voter fraud crimes took place between 2021 and 2022. Unlike Michigan, the perpetrators in this case were charged.
Two Nevada residents have pleaded guilty to filling out hundreds of voter registration forms with false information and then submitting them to 10 Minnesota election offices during the 2022 election. The former West St. Paul, Minnesota residents, 57-year-old Lorraine Lee Combs and 58-year-old Ronnie Williams, who are described as longtime romantic partners, were charged Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis. The couple was caught and charged with conspiracy to engage in voter registration fraud in Minnesota. They were both charged through a judicial process called information, which indicates to the court their intention to plead guilty.
According to court documents, an unnamed voter registration group paid both individuals to create the fake registrations and submit them to 10 different counties in Minnesota. The counties have not been named, but the Carver County Sheriff’s Department is mentioned in the U.S. Attorney’s press release. Carver County, MN, is a swing county with Republicans holding a slight edge over Democratic voters. Creating large numbers of new voters out of thin air could significantly impact the outcome of their elections.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office, District of Minnesota, had this to say about the charges that resulted from a 2-year investigation in the voter fraud scam: “Election fraud strikes at the heart of our democracy,” said Acting U.S. Attorney Joseph H. Thompson. “Thankfully, the FBI stopped this fraud in its tracks before anyone successfully cast a fraudulent ballot. But we will stay vigilant. Whether it’s jury bribery, witness tampering, or now election fraud—crimes that threaten our democracy have no place in Minnesota.”
“Nothing is more central to our democracy than fair and impartially conducted elections,” said Special Agent in Charge Alvin M. Winston Sr. of the FBI Minneapolis. “Through their actions, Combs and Williams attempted to deprive the citizens of Minnesota of a secure and reliable election process. Along with our partners, the FBI will stop at nothing to identify and bring to justice anyone who threatens the security of our electoral system.”
According to court documents, Williams then provided the completed voter registration forms to Foundation 1, an entity seeking to register voters in Minnesota, which submitted the false voter registration applications to county election offices across Minnesota. Foundation 1 paid Williams for the registrations, and Williams split the proceeds with Combs.
Minnesota Secretary of State Steve Simon claimed he worked to identify the false registrations and report them to law enforcement.
According to Alpha News, Minnesota Secretary of State Steve Simon stated that his office also partnered with local election officials, who utilized verification tools to identify inconsistencies and report them to law enforcement and Simon’s office. “The extensive checks in Minnesota’s voter registration process ensured that the fraudulent applications were immediately flagged, and no ineligible votes were cast,” Simon added.
In Michigan, when it was discovered that GBI Strategies (a Democrat-funded voter registration group) was sending packages filled with fake voter registrations from a hotel in Auburn Hills, MI, to clerks’ offices across the state of Michigan, Corey Ames, an investigator working for Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, was assigned to the case. Curiously, Ms.Benson, a Democrat who is now running for governor of the state, kept the investigation hidden from the public. Moreover, MI Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson kept the investigation hidden from the clerks, who were never told to be on the lookout for the fraudulent voter applications.
Unlike the Minnesota Secretary of State, who was transparent about their findings, Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson kept the statewide investigation into GBI Strategies a secret from Michigan clerks tasked with determining whether the voter registrations they received in the mail were legitimate or fraudulent. Michigan clerks used Facebook to compare notes when they received what they considered suspicious activity. fcomplain about the large volume of fake voter registrations they were receiving from the Democrat-funded group, which never faced any criminal charges for its actions.
The image below is a screenshot taken by The Gateway Pundit from a Michigan Clerk’s Facebook page, which we were given access to through a whistleblower. The post shared by a clerk on the west side of the state, reveals a photo of the box of phony voter registrations she received from GBI Strategies, aka Empower Michigan (EM), from a hotel on the other side of the state.
Although Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel, who is also a Democrat, is very vocal about using lawfare to punish her political enemies, she also chose to keep the statewide voter registration fraud investigation hidden from the public. In the video below, Stephen Morse, an investigator working for Dana Nessel’s office, can be seen interviewing the key suspect, who was employed by GBI Strategies and was caught turning in a massive quantity of fake registrations.
The key GBI Strategies suspect tells MI AG Nessel Investigator Stephen Morse she doesn’t know who pays GBI to do the work they were doing. She also said they had several offices in MI, Miami, Philly, N. Carolina and Iowa.
Morse tells the GBI Strategies employee who allegedly… pic.twitter.com/OxTXHVxmru
— PattyMI (@PattyLovesTruth) March 31, 2025
Unlike the two suspects who just pleaded guilty to creating and turning in over 500 fraudulent voter registrations in Minnesota, not one person, including the key suspect in the GBI Strategies voter fraud case, was ever charged for their role in the Democrat-funded voter fraud scheme.
Although FOIA requests related to GBI Strategies’ work in Michigan and other states have been submitted, they have reportedly all been rejected due to an “ongoing investigation.”
So far, the voter registration group involved in the Minnesota voter registration fraud investigation has not been named. The Minnesota voter registration group that paid Williams and Lee-Combs is listed as “Foundation 1” in the court documents.
Many of these groups, like GBI Strategies and Black Fork Strategies which operates in Ohio and have also been accused of mass voter registration fraud, are funded by left-leaning organizations or PACs.
One of the top funders of GBI Strategies (which now appears to be defunct or has reorganized under a new acronym) was the DSCC (Democratic Senate Campaign Committee). Curiously, U.S. Senator Gary Peters, whose campaign funded their work in Michigan, has served as chairman for the past two election cycles. Peters shocked Michigan residents when he abruptly announced his retirement at the end of his term in 2024.
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