We spoke with attorneys, election officials, voting rights advocates and other experts to ensure we understood the bills and how they could impact Michigan voters.
That’s something Senate Republicans did not appear to do, according to GOP and Democratic clerks, who object to some of the provisions and question whether the bills are motivated by false fraud claims from former President Donald Trump and his supporters.
“The standard of proof needs to be pretty high if you re going to make life worse for a voter,” said Ottawa County Clerk Justin Roebuck, a Republican who co-chairs the Michigan Association of County Clerks’ legislative committee.
A Republican state lawmaker is floating sweeping overhauls to how the state conducts elections. But, even before they’ve been officially introduced, the bills are already facing pushback.
The six bills, proposed by Republican Senator Duey Stroebel of Saukville, would change requirements for indefinitely confined voters, institute stricter voter ID laws and bar election funding from private organizations among a variety of other things.
The bills are currently circulating for co-sponsors and haven’t been formally introduced onto the floor. Despite that, they’ve already faced pushback from a number of Democrats and even Republican State Assembly Speaker Robin Vos.
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An exclusive, nationwide survey sent to more than 3,000 election administrators in all 50 states finds they consider misinformation to be the greatest challenge to future U.S. elections and American democracy.
The broad, 35-question inquiry was sent by the Hearst Television National Investigative Unit in late December, shortly after all states certified their electoral ballots in the U.S. presidential election, and concluded Jan. 15, five days before the inauguration of President Joseph R. Biden.
The Grading the Election survey asked local and state election administrators – from town and parish clerks to county auditors and secretaries of state – for in-depth insights on election security, pandemic-related changes, funding, absentee ballots and postal issues, relations with state legislators and federal agencies and suggestions for permanent
EXCLUSIVE: Part 1: Nationwide survey shows misinformation greatest challenge to US elections
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Show Transcript on the western edge of Puget Sound. In Washington state, election misinformation kept flooding into small Mason County. So the head of elections auditor Patti McGuire, trying to soak up the incoming falsehoods with dry, hard fax. He started a biweekly column in the local paper this year, knocking down misinformation in the community and making clear the stakes. His office applied for a $33,000 grant and used it to create and mail every voter in eight page guide. The headline on Page three. Ensuring the Integrity of Elections. You were sounding the alarm. We wanted them set the record straight him and