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The House agenda includes bills to allow help with giving voters rides to the polls and for military voters to return absentee ballots electronically
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Governor Gretchen Whitmer signed several voting rights bills Tuesday. Some of the bills are part of enacting the voting rights amendment adopted last year by voters
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The bills spell out what the new changes mandated by the voting rights constitutional amendment
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An eight-day window to pre-process absentee ballots would apply to cities or townships with at least 5,000 residents. Smaller communities would be allowed to pre-process on the Monday before an election
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Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson said in a press conference today that she won’t comment on any pending election litigation
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Some 1.6 million voters in Michigan have requested absentee ballots and 150,000 have cast ballots for the general election, which is less than a month away.
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The goal of the Michigan initiative is to “enhance the integrity and security of the elections by sort of modernizing how they’re administered and making them more accessible"
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A bi-partisan elections package has received the governor’s signature
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Democrats warned of longer lines in urban areas and other problems.
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Larger Michigan municipalities could begin processing an expected surge of absentee ballots sooner in the battleground state’s November presidential…