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The petition campaign to add LGBTQ protections to Michigan’s civil rights law has asked the Michigan Supreme Court to hear its case. The campaign is challenging the finding that it failed to collect enough signatures.
Fair and Equal Michigan wants the court to reverse a finding by a state elections board that it failed to gather enough petition signatures. The drive was hampered by the COVID-19 crisis that stalled in-person petition circulating.
But Fair and Equal Michigan says the rules the state’s using regarding what counts as a valid or invalid signature are vague and subjective. Also, the campaign wants the state to count signatures that were collected electronically. Organizers say that could put them over the top to get the question before the Legislature or onto the 2022 ballot.
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The campaign to add LGBTQ protections to Michigan’s civil rights law has appealed a court decision that stalled the petition drive. The Fair and Equal Michigan campaign filed its paperwork Monday with the state Court of Appeals.
The campaign argues the Michigan Board of State Canvassers and the Michigan Court of Claims used highly technical requirements to eliminate signatures from the sample the state used to find the initiative campaign fell short of the 340,047 signatures required. Also, the campaign says the state should have counted signatures that were gathered electronically during the COVID-19 crisis.