Secretary of State of Michigan

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The Secretary of State of Michigan is a statewide elected official who oversees elections, vehicle registration, and driver licensing, and maintains many of the state's official records.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf executive branch office
state constitutional office
alsoKnownAs Secretary of State of Michigan
surface form: Michigan Secretary of State

SOS (Michigan)
appliesToJurisdiction Michigan
surface form: State of Michigan
branch Executive branch of the government of Michigan
surface form: Executive branch of Michigan
constitutingInstrument Constitution of the State of Michigan
country United States of America
createdBy Constitution of the State of Michigan
surface form: Michigan Constitution
electedIn Michigan statewide elections
electionType partisan election
hasJurisdictionOver driver licensing in Michigan
election administration in Michigan
vehicle registration in Michigan
headquartersLocation Lansing, Michigan
memberOf Michigan executive branch elected officials
nativeLabel Secretary of State of Michigan self-linksurface differs
surface form: Michigan Secretary of State
officeHolder Jocelyn Benson NERFINISHED
officeHolderStartTime 2019-01-01
officeType constitutional officer
oversees Michigan Bureau of Elections
Michigan Department of State branch offices
Michigan driver record system
Michigan vehicle title system
partOf government of Michigan
surface form: Government of Michigan
positionHeldBy statewide elected official
reportsTo Governor of Michigan
responsibleFor administration of elections in Michigan
driver licensing in Michigan
enforcement of certain election laws
implementation of Michigan election reforms
maintenance of Uniform Commercial Code filings
maintenance of campaign finance records
maintenance of lobbyist registrations
maintenance of many official state records
maintenance of notary public commissions
maintenance of state identification card system
maintenance of the qualified voter file
oversight of branch office services for residents
vehicle registration in Michigan
voter registration administration
seat Lansing, Michigan
style Secretary of State
termLength 4 years
termLimitDetail two 4-year terms
termLimited true
website https://www.michigan.gov/sos

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Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10.

# Requirements
- If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list.
- If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list.
- Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf".
- Do not get too wordy.
- Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Secretary of State of Michigan
Description of subject: The Secretary of State of Michigan is a statewide elected official who oversees elections, vehicle registration, and driver licensing, and maintains many of the state's official records.

Referenced by (5)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

government of Michigan hasOffice Secretary of State of Michigan
subject surface form: Government of Michigan
Austin v. Michigan Chamber of Commerce defendantOffice Secretary of State of Michigan
this entity surface form: Michigan Secretary of State
Secretary of State of Michigan nativeLabel Secretary of State of Michigan self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Michigan Secretary of State
Secretary of State of Michigan alsoKnownAs Secretary of State of Michigan
this entity surface form: Michigan Secretary of State
Executive branch of the government of Michigan includesOffice Secretary of State of Michigan