voting rights

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Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson recently got to sign a voting rights law while Governor Gretchen Whitmer and Lieutenant Governor Garlin Gilchrist were both out of state.

Voters can vote on issues or for candidates for municipalities and local taxing districts on August 8, 2023.

Governor Gretchen Whitmer signed bills Tuesday to expand voting rights — including making it easier to vote by absentee ballot.

There’s a partisan split over voting rights bills working their way through the Michigan Legislature. Work will continue on the bills next week.

Benson is calling for a ban on firearms within 100 feet of polling places.

A petition drive wants to put a question on the November ballot to enshrine new voting rights in the state constitution.

Michigan’s governor has vetoed a pair of election bills Republicans hoped would help clean up the state’s voter roll.

Dearborn wants to provide ballot translation for its Arabic-speaking population, but the Wayne County Clerk has concerns about it.

More than 50 years after the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. stood on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, activists are marching to fight federal legislation that they say will make it harder to vote.