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The International Registration Plan (IRP) - a program for registering and licensing of commercial vehicles in interstate operations among member jurisdictions (states or provinces).
The Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) online service for customers filing financial statements and liens through the Secretary of State.
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Legislative committees play an important role conducting oversight of the executive branch and state agencies. Oversight is part of the Legislature’s work, and the Michigan Department of State (MDOS) is committed to supporting responsible use of this authority.
Michigan House committees have requested a large and growing volume of election administration documents from MDOS. The department has already provided thousands of pages of documents and materials in response, which required hundreds of hours and cost thousands of taxpayer dollars to review and produce.
Even though the department has already produced thousands of pages and documents and agreed to provide thousands more, the House Committee on Oversight chose to issue a subpoena for all materials from an online training portal for Michigan’s county and local clerks. The subpoena is a threat of jail time, a financial penalty, or both, unless the department adheres to the House Committee’s demand to produce documents that could expose Michigan’s election security measures.
Secretary Benson and MDOS staff continue to provide materials necessary for legislative committees to perform their oversight function while also protecting the cybersecurity and physical security of the state’s election system and voting machines. Some of the documents that House members seek to have disclosed with no security review could be used by bad actors to interfere with the chain of custody of ballots, tamper with election equipment, or to impersonate a clerk on Election Day.
Transparency is one of the core values of MDOS. Given the public interest in this topic, the department will post the elections administration documents it has provided to the Elections Integrity and Oversight committees here on this website for public access. This website will be updated periodically with additional documents and communication produced for the committees, so members of the public can see the documents themselves.
As guardians of the elections process in Michigan, MDOS will not compromise its duty to protect election security.
