Blog tagged as Elections

Whether the Secretary of State has the power to issue specific instructions on how challengers and poll watchers are supposed to act at the voting booth without going through the traditional rule-making process is now in the Michigan Supreme Court’s hands.

The trio charged in a signature fraud case that kept eight candidates off the 2022 ballot are headed to trial.

Matt DePerno, the Republicans’ 2022 Attorney General nominee, confirmed he’s interested in the GOP’s Michigan Supreme Court nomination in the four-year race against incumbent Justice Kyra Bolden.

The Board of State Canvassers voted unanimously on Monday that state Court of Appeals candidate Lisa Marie Neilson missed the 6,200 signatures required to make the August primary ballot by 23 names, marking the presumed end to a question that has stretched for weeks.

Legislation requiring the Secretary of State to team up with a public Michigan university to create an expansive election database received a fourth public hearing Wednesday.