Good job fellow Michiganders - good job
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, Attorney General Dana Nessel, and Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, all Democrats, won second terms in Tuesday’s election, defeating their far-right conspiracy theorist challengers.
And for the first time in 38 years, Democrats have gained control of the state House and Senate.
The party has a trifecta in state government for the first time in nearly 40 years
www.metrotimes.com
We enshrined abortion rights and voting rights* into our state constitution as well
*Prop 2:
• creating a nine-day early voting period;
• requiring voters to present photo identification or sign an affidavit when voting in person or applying for an absentee ballot;
• requiring that military and overseas ballots postmarked by election day are counted;
• providing voters with a right to request an absentee ballot;
• requiring the state to fund prepaid stamps and a tracking system for absentee ballots
• requiring the state to fund a number of absentee ballot dropboxes;
• providing that local governments can accept charitable and in-kind donations to assist with running elections as long as donations are disclosed and aren’t from foreign entities; and
• providing that election officials are responsible for election audits, requiring election audits to be conducted in public, and
requiring election results to be certified based on votes cast.
In regards to the bold - some of you may remember some of the bullshit that happened in Michigan in 2020 around certification of votes in Wayne Co.
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