voting-rights

A campaign to tighten Michigan’s voter ID laws submitted signatures Wednesday in hopes of getting a proposed constitutional amendment on the November ballot

The ACLU would consider filing a lawsuit alleging a constitutional voting rights violation if the problem is not fixed

Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson says the GOP’s position would deprive thousands of overseas voters, including family members of military personnel, of their rights

The suit alleged the City of Flint didn’t hire enough Republican poll watchers for precincts and absentee ballot counting boards that year. Lower courts had dismissed the case

Judge Joseph Oster says there wasn’t sufficient evidence to send the two women to trial. Charges against the part-time election workers in St. Clair Shores were announced in October by Attorney General Dana Nessel.

Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson will testify Wednesday before a US House committee that deals with election security.

The bills would echo the federal Voting Rights Act to protect minority groups from being disenfranchised

A new law ensures that people can continue to apply online to have an absentee ballot mailed to them

Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson said the new law is important to get in front of the use of rapidly changing technology that is used to influence voters.

Republicans say the bill might be well-intentioned. But they say it would leave too much room for abuse by groups trying to get in the last word before dropping voters off at polling places