Michigan Secretary of State Loses her Verification Badge After Probe into Musk's PAC

I noticed some odd patterns with Twitter verification badges

Late last night while hope scrolling on Twitter (I refuse to call it X), I noticed that Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson’s blue verification badge had been removed from her personal account. My first thought was to check the Arizona Secretary of State’s personal account - Adrian Fontes - to see if his check was missing. I was prompted to check his because Arizona, along with Michigan, have indicted folks for the 2020 Trump fraudulent electors scheme. Sure enough, he didn’t have a verification badge, either.

Then I checked the Attorneys General for Michigan and Arizona - Dana Nessel and Kris Mayes respectively - and neither of their accounts were verified. So I dug deeper, checking all the states where the fraudulent elector scheme had been indicted, including Nevada, Wisconsin, and Georgia - Aaron Ford, Josh Kaul, and Chris Carr.

No blue check mark.

I thought, perhaps blue checks had been removed from all Attorneys General personal accounts. But no. Ken Paxton of Texas and Ashley Moody of Florida were verified. Then I checked some blue states that hadn’t been involved in the fraudulent elector scheme, and even Tish James of New York is verified.

I tweeted about the anomalies and then the MI SoS Jocelyn Benson quote tweeted me, also wondering where her blue check mark went.

Could this have to do with swing state AGs and SoSs? Or does it have something to do with Jocelyn Benson looking into Elon Musk’s pro-trump America PAC?

I’ll keep digging.

~AG