JOCELYN BENSON
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan’s top election official on Thursday blasted Republican-backed voting bills that are pending in the Legislature, calling them an “un-American” affront to voters and saying some would be more restrictive than a controversial new law in Georgia.
Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, a Democrat, said Georgia voters can get an absentee ballot if they include a driver’s license number on the mailed-in application. One of the Michigan measures would require voters to attach a copy of their driver’s license to the application.
It “serves no other purpose than to make it harder for them to vote absentee,” she said during a virtual news conference with Detroit City Clerk Janice Winfrey and a Democratic legislator. “There’s no evidence or data or even precedent to suggest that that somehow would prevent voter fraud.”