Michigan’s top election official, Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, a Democrat, is the subject of a bar complaint over her department’s actions to keep independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s name on the ballot.
State Sen. Ruth Johnson, a Republican who immediately preceded Benson as secretary of state, filed the bar complaint alleging that Benson manipulated procedures to undermine the Nov. 5 election.
Michigan is one of the most fiercely contested battleground states. Vice President Kamala Harris, a Democrat, and former President Donald Trump, a Republican, are separated by a single percentage point, according to the Real Clear Politics average of polls.
Johnson’s formal complaint to the State Bar of Michigan contends that Benson represented to numerous courts that there was a statutory deadline to finalize the list of candidates for the state ballot. However, the complaint says, Benson ignored her own deadline to keep Kennedy’s name on the ballot.
Before Kennedy suspended his campaign and endorsed........