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The search warrant comes after a voting tabulator went missing and a clerk who expressed support for QAnon was stripped of her authority to run next week’s election.
The fight has just begun as Republicans circulate a petition for identical legislation to tighten Michigan’s voter identification law, limit absentee ballot application mailings and bar private grants for election administration.
Michigan State Police are investigating after a voting machine went missing in rural Hillsdale County, where a clerk who has expressed support for QAnon had refused to allow routine maintenance on the machine.
After a small-town clerk publicly questioned her own voting machine and spread disinformation, the Michigan Bureau of Election used rare power to strip her of authority to administer next week’s vote.
The Republican-led House passes legislation that sponsors say protects property rights and one critic says will ‘pour lighter fluid on an already red-hot housing market.'
Tampons are taxed like other goods in Michigan, which can cost women thousands of dollars over their lives. Since Michigan began debating the issue, five states have exempted feminine hygiene products from taxation.
The Michigan governor has a $12 million war chest, in part because she’s used a controversial loophole that allows candidates facing recalls to exceed donor limits. The top Republican candidate has $1 million.
Amid continued criticism over the state’s jobless claims processing, Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer on Monday appointed a new director for the embattled Unemployment Insurance Agency.
Residents push back against legislative maps that leave Michigan with one of 161 districts with more than 50 percent Black voters residents, who said the maps further disenfranchise voters of color.
Kristina Karamo, who is endorsed by former President Donald Trump, is speaking at ‘For God and Country: Patriot Double Down’ conference in Las Vegas. She says she doesn't support QAnon, though.
Michigan currently has 17 majority-Black districts. But in the 10 proposed maps released by the commission last week, only one district would have a voting age population of more than 50 percent African-American.
African Americans, Bangladeshis, and Latinos all told the state’s redistricting commission how to draw districts representative of their communities. Some are happy. Most are not.
Some $3.4 million from excess donations would have to be returned or donated if recall petitions against the governor fail, according to a court filing from fellow Democrats.
Gretchen Whitmer has her veto pen ready as Michigan’s Republican-led Legislature gives final approval to bills that would tighten voting and election laws. But the GOP is ready too: They’re already circulating petitions to go around her.
Michigan’s Freedom of Information Act still doesn’t apply to lawmakers or the governor. But a key legislator wants to reduce excessive fees, delays and redactions for public records.