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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.”
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.”
Apr 16, 2021
LANSING (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.”
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