LANSING, MI - Republican state legislators are calling for federal oversight of Michigan’s 2026 election, due to Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson’s name appearing on the ballot.

In a Nov. 13 letter , a group of 22 GOP legislators asked the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to oversee the state’s upcoming primary and general elections.

Benson, the state’s chief elections official, is also running for governor .

The letter called it an “unavoidable conflict of interest.”

In response, Michigan Department of State Chief Communications Officer Angela Benander described the letter as “pouring gasoline on our democracy and asking the DOJ to light a match.”

She said lawmakers are using “dangerous, false rhetoric to encourage President (Donald) Trump to illegally interfere in our state’s a

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