In an interview with WJR on Wednesday, State Rep. Jaime Greene (R-Richmond) laid out exactly how Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson’s disastrous new financial disclosure system has failed the citizens of Michigan. Among the litany of ongoing issues with Benson’s project, Greene highlighted how, when compared with the old disclosure system, it is much harder to navigate and makes it nearly impossible for users to easily find elected officials’ financial data. Greene also pointed out that Benson delivered these downgrades at the expense of millions of taxpayer dollars.

“It never launched; it never works,” Greene said of Benson’s new electronic filing system during her interview. “The old system from back in 2000 worked so much better. Granted it was clunky, and it was weird, and it was on a floppy disk, but it actually worked. This is her job, and I am shocked as an I.T. person, that it was not tested or vetted, especially to the tune of over $9.3 million.”

In response to Benson’s failures, the Legislature passed changes to elected officials’ financial disclosure requirements with nearly unanimous, bipartisan support. The changes create a new financial disclosure form that members can submit through email, allowing legislative members to no longer rely upon Benson’s dysfunctional reporting system.

“That all but one of the legislative democrats voted to replace Benson’s financial disclosure system is a damning indictment of her failures in office,” Greene said. “This was a referendum on the leading gubernatorial candidate for