April 22, 2021 By Jessica Mathews / news@whmi.com
No charges will be filed against paid petition circulators for a Republican-affiliated committee accused of using illegal, corrupt and improper tactics to obtain signatures, including in Livingston County.â¨
Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel opened an investigation into Unlock Michigan last September after videos suggested evidence of irregularities in the way petition circulators obtained signatures. The undercover videos showed petition circulators using illegal tactics to gather signatures in Brighton and Howell to repeal a 1945 law that gave Governor Gretchen Whitmer broad powers to manage the coronavirus crisis without legislative approval. The law has since been struck down as unconstitutional by the Michigan Supreme Court.