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Budget talks advance, GOP election bills tweaked: The week in Michigan politics
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LANSING, MI - This week in Lansing was more about molding legislation than passing bills, at least on major topics.
Both chambers made moves to further clarify key initiatives, with budget talks picking up in the House and Senate and amendments made to Senate Republican election bills.
The House continued to tackle ethics reform, while Republicans in both chambers moved to allow high schools to hold in-person commencements. Here’s what happened this week at the Michigan Capitol:
Budget talks evolve
Quarterly budgets for many state agencies, staffing cuts and additional limits on how state agencies can respond to the COVID-19 pandemic all remain on the table as Michigan lawmakers move forward with setting the state’s annual budget.
Lawmakers want to address wrong church, wrong pew voting PUBLISHED 1:22 PM ET May. 03, 2021 PUBLISHED 1:22 PM EDT May. 03, 2021
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Last year, 13,800 voters showed up to the wrong polling place in their county and their ballots were disqualified.
Now, state lawmakers want to do so something to solve the problem known as wrong church, wrong pew voting when filling out an affidavit ballot.
General election data gathered by the group VoteEarlyNY released on Monday found 13,800 ballots were disqualified after voters appeared at the wrong polling site. This translates to a heavy percentage of affidavit ballots being rejected: 32.4% in Erie County, 22.8% in Dutchess County and 21.2% in Ulster County, the group s research found.
Michigan House votes to move primary elections to June
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Evening voters cast their ballots at Sibley Elementary School in Grand Rapids on Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2020. (Cory Morse | MLive.com) Cory Morse | MLive.com
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LANSING, MI - The Michigan House voted to reconfigure election cycles as part of a package of bills approved Tuesday.
The legislation would move August primaries to June and also eliminate regular elections held in May, effective in 2023. The House passed these bills, as well as an expansion of eligible polling places and more election laws during an April 27 session.
The primary election change package consists of four bills sponsored by two Republicans and two Democrats.
Whitmer and GOP align on avoiding more restrictions: The week in Michigan politics
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During a Zoom conference, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer announced new protocols mandating work bids include labor and environmental records, economic impact in Michigan and certification that the business has properly classified employees.
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LANSING, MI - For the first time in several months, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and Republican leaders in the Michigan Legislature actually agree on something.
Whitmer this week opted to generally avoid imposing significant new COVID-19 restrictions, even though the state’s case and hospitalization rates are the worst in the country. Instead, the governor pushed once more for more people to get vaccinated and comply with mask-wearing and social-distancing guidelines.