Michigan makes voting easier, despite GOP efforts

Michiganders overwhelmingly passed a 2018 ballot measure that made voting easier by establishing automatic voter registration, no-reason absentee voting and straight-party voting. By a wide margin, voters approved additional changes in 2022: nine days of early voting, prepaid ballot postage, access to absentee-ballot drop boxes and more.

Eleven GOP state lawmakers filed suit to nullify the amendments. Using the radical independent state legislature theory, they argued that only state legislatures – not citizens – have the authority to set rules for federal elections.

A federal district court judge dismissed the case in April last year. Then, in December, the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed that ruling.

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This week, the U.S. Supreme Court denied Republicans’ request to hear their challenge to pro-voter amendments to the Michigan Constitution.

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