absentee voting

The House agenda includes bills to allow help with giving voters rides to the polls and for military voters to return absentee ballots electronically

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

The bills spell out what the new changes mandated by the voting rights constitutional amendment

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

Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson said in a press conference today that she won’t comment on any pending election litigation

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.

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"

A bi-partisan elections package has received the governor’s signature

Democrats warned of longer lines in urban areas and other problems.

Larger Michigan municipalities could begin processing an expected surge of absentee ballots sooner in the battleground state’s November presidential…