Blog tagged as Elections

(Source: MIRS.news, Published 02/21/2023) On the Tuesday morning following the spring Republican Convention, the party’s Lansing office was all but abandoned, with a single car in the parking lot and no one answering the buzzer.

Steve Liedel, chief legal counsel to former Gov. Jennifer Granholm, believes the mechanism used to determine a possible income tax rollback "likely violates Michigan's constitution," and could provide grounds for the current governor not to comply.

The Senate Democratic Fund could face a $1 million fine if the Bureau of Elections finds it improperly shielded a last-minute loan from campaign finance reports.

The Secretary of State's office estimates state and local election operations will need up to $45 million to implement the voting reforms baked into Proposal 2 of 2022.

(Source: MIRS.news, Published 01/24/2023) Nine days of early voting is coming to Michigan with passage of Proposal 2 and local clerks are asking legislators to do some legislative clean up to make the process run as smoothly as possible.