Michigan is about to turn into a battleground over voter rights

[winb83]

The republican state legislature is trying to take measures to roll back the absentee ballot expansion the citizens voted to have.
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The package would prohibit the secretary of state from mailing unsolicited applications for absentee ballots to voters, require voters to mail in a photocopied or scanned ID to receive an absentee ballot, and restrict the use of absentee ballot drop boxes, among other rule changes. These measures would roll back some of the expanded access to absentee ballots that Michigan voters approved, by a two-to-one margin, in a 2018 vote to amend the Constitution.

So these fools want you to mail in a photocopy of your ID using a stamp so they can mail you a ballot and then you gotta use another stamp to mail your ballot back.

They also about to do this in a way that removes the governor’s veto power.

Michigan is one of just nine states that allow voters to petition lawmakers to take up a piece of legislation; if passed, the law is not subject to a governor’s veto. If the Legislature does not pass the bill within 40 days of receiving it, the measure goes before voters on the next statewide ballot. It is a rarely used procedure: Lawmakers have passed only nine voter-initiated bills since 1963, according to the state Bureau of Elections.

But last month, Ron Weiser, the state’s Republican Party chairman, told supporters in a video reported on by The Detroit News that the state party planned to subsidize a petition drive to cut Ms. Whitmer out of the lawmaking process.

To do so would require 340,047 voter signatures, or 10 percent of the vote in the last governor’s election. Mr. Weiser said that the signatures would be gathered through county committees with party funding.

 

[mc_brew]

i live in michigan, i doubt this passes..... hopefully, if this gets on the ballot, advocacy groups come out with guns blazing and pull out all stops to defeat this...

 

[Payday23]

America is already a battleground over voting rights. Dems need to act quickly before they don't have enough time. This is an historic moment between being allowed to vote and having some say to the GOP choosing your government for you

 

[eastside313]

i live in michigan, i doubt this passes..... hopefully, if this gets on the ballot, advocacy groups come out with guns blazing and pull out all stops to defeat this...

Once upon a time on the Detroit ballot we voted no to a emergency manager. And they went and made a new law and gave us one anyway.

which led me to say voting don’t even matter. Them People can do what they want.