O’Keefe Returns To Michigan Election Records
James O’Keefe was in Michigan on Election Day and has now released another undercover video tied to questions about the state’s voter rolls and absentee ballot records. The Gateway Pundit report says O’Keefe spoke before the election with members of a Detroit 2020 Election Inspection leadership team, including Phani Mantravadi, Yehuda Miller, and Patty McMurray, about areas they believed deserved closer scrutiny. The article frames Michigan as a trouble spot for election integrity concerns under Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, though the latest video centers on what O’Keefe says are duplicate signatures on absentee ballot return envelopes from Detroit’s 2020 election. Bureaucracy, as usual, appears to have produced paperwork thick enough to make a filing cabinet beg for mercy.
The Earlier Video Focused On Non-Citizens
The first video described in the report involved O’Keefe referencing prior Gateway Pundit reporting from May 19, 2026, which claimed six non-citizens on Michigan voter rolls were also on the Department of Homeland Security’s “Worst of the Worst” criminals list. One person named in the report was Dearborn resident Afshin Masheli, described by the outlet as a convicted rapist from Iran whom the United States has been unable to deport. According to the article, Check My Vote, an online service tied to Michigan voter roll data and created by Phani Mantravadi, showed Masheli voted in three Michigan federal and state elections. In O’Keefe’s undercover clip, the report says Masheli spoke at his front door and said he was preparing to vote in Michigan’s primary election later that day.
A Teaser Promised More
On Sunday afternoon, O’Keefe posted a teaser on X that said, “Time to raise the stakes,” followed by “Tomorrow.” That is the modern media drumroll, minus the drum and plus the algorithm. The next release, according to the report, showed O’Keefe going door to door and asking people about duplicate absentee ballot return envelopes from Detroit’s 2020 election records. The clip includes O’Keefe raising questions about signatures and envelopes, while people he speaks with react to what they are shown. The article presents the footage as part of a broader effort to review and document Detroit absentee ballot materials from 2020.
The New Clip Targets Duplicate Absentee Envelopes
In the new video, O’Keefe says he is investigating duplicate absentee ballot return envelopes in Detroit, Michigan. The post says he went door to door interviewing affected voters. The quoted exchanges in the report include one person asking, “That’s illegal right?” and another saying, “They probably sent her two ballots, and she just signed them, I guess.” Those lines do not settle the legal questions, but they do show why clean election records matter. If a system needs voters, volunteers, lawsuits, and undercover cameras to explain its own paperwork, perhaps the system is not exactly a Swiss watch.
The FOIA Review Behind The Claims
The report says the latest work is tied to a FOIA lawsuit by election integrity activist Yehuda Miller. According to the article, more than 100 volunteers, along with the author and Check My Vote founder Phani Mantravadi, are entering data from nearly 1 million Detroit 2020 election documents into a secure website. Those records include absentee ballot envelopes, absentee ballots, absentee ballot applications, and Detroit’s 2020 poll books and tapes. The outlet says it will continue reporting findings once the team believes they are fully confirmed. It also says its latest count showed Detroit had 26,001 more ballots than ballot envelopes, which the report argues would violate the rule requiring every absentee ballot to have a matching absentee ballot envelope.
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