Judge Blocks Benson Forcing Clerks to Delete Files

Seven days to delete the poll books, twenty-two months under federal law. Somebody in the Secretary of State's office skipped the records chapter of the civics textbook. A Michigan Court of Claims judge struck down Rule R 168.48, the seven-day deletion rule, in a case brought by Bridgewater Township Clerk Michelle McQueer.

The Gateway Pundit reports the Court ordered the files kept on encrypted flash drives for 22 months, and that the state can appeal. The Court put the burden at $100 per additional drive at most. "Retaining the metadata is as crucial as retaining the data itself," the Court said, which is a sentence every Beltway genius should frame. The experts are baffled. The rest of us did the math.

“Retaining the metadata is as crucial as retaining the data itself.”The Court, via Gateway Pundit