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These 41 officials in Michigan labeled ‘ongoing threats to democracy’ by watchdog group
The officials — most of them elected — sought to undermine confidence in elections
By Steve Neavling
Tags: Politics & Elections, News, Republicans, elections, politics, State Senate, State House, Democracy, voting rights, Informing Democracy
Michigan Democrats strike back at anti-democracy Republicans with proposed legislation
The proposed bills would protect elections workers and voters
Tags: Politics & Elections, Politics & Elections, Jocelyn Benson, Secretary of State, Michigan, Democrats, Michigan House, Michigan Senate, lawmakers, elections, politics
Pretty girls make rap music: The top 10 Metro Times headlines
Here’s what our readers clicked on this week
By Alex Washington
Tags: ICYMI, ICYMI, Matthew DePerno, Elections, Republican, Michigan, Pretty Brayah, Cedar Point, Detroit
Meet the Michigan clerk who breaks down election law to candidates in viral Twitter threads
Barb Byrum says officials must take on election lies ‘head-on and aggressively’
By Laina G. Stebbins, Michigan Advance
Tags: Politics & Elections, Politics & Elections, Michigan, elections, Republicans, GOP, Democrats, Barb Byrum
Hey Republicans, Michigan residents want stricter gun laws, poll shows
Nearly two-thirds of Michigan voters support more gun control
Tags: Politics & Elections, News, Guns, NRA, EPIC-MRA, poll, politics, elections, CPL, Democrats
More women Dems are running in northern Michigan
Is it a sign the landscape is changing?
By Allison R. Donahue, Michigan Advance and Allison Donahue, Michigan Advance
Tags: Politics & Elections, Politics & Elections, Michigan, feminism, elections, Democrats
Former Michigan GOP executive director says Trump and Republicans should be criminally charged for election lies
Many of the Republicans running for local, state, and federal elections in Michigan this year continue to peddle conspiracy theories about widespread election fraud
Tags: Politics & Elections, Politics & Elections, Republicans, elections, politics, Jeff Timmer, Joe Tate, Donald Trump, Noah Bookbinder, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics, Michigan Republican Party, insurrection
John Oliver mocks Michigan Republican SOS candidate Kristina Karamo for ‘fake moral panics’
Karamo will face Benson in the November election
Tags: Politics & Elections, Politics & Elections, Kristina Karamo, Republicans, elections, politics, conspiracy theories, John Oliver, comedy, TV
Opponents of DeVos-backed private school initiatives warn about deceptive ‘voucher scheme’
Tags: Politics & Elections, Betsy DeVos, public education, private schools, charter schools, ballot initiative, politics, elections, vouchers, Let MI Kids Learn, For MI Kids
Disability rights champion spotlights need for accessible housing, voting
By Lily Bohlke, Michigan News Connection
Tags: Politics & Elections, voting, disabilities, handicap, elections
Macomb County nursing home employee sentenced to jail for forging absentee ballot applications
Tags: Politics & Elections, Dana Nessel, Michigan Attorney General, voter fraud, elections, Macomb County
They’ve gone over budget and were sued, but Michigan's redistricting commissioners give themselves a raise anyway
Tags: Politics & Elections, Michigan Independent Citizens Redistricting Commission, Michigan, politics, elections, State House, State Senate, Congress, Rebecca Szetela
Michigan Secretary of State asks for investigation into reports of third party access to voting technology
Tags: Politics & Elections, Voting machines, elections, politics, Secretary of state, Jocelyn Benson, Voting, Roscommon County, Michigan State Police, Michigan Attorney General
Ballot proposal launched to protect voting access in Michigan
Tags: Politics & Elections, Promote the Vote, ballot initiative, voting, elections, politics, voting rights, Secure MI Vote, absentee ballots, drop boxes
Michigan petition seeks to overrule Governor's veto on restrictive voter ID law
Tags: Michigan, elections, voting, Republicans, GOP, Whitmer
Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson says Democrats aren't doing enough to protect democracy
By Lee DeVito
Tags: Jocelyn Benson, Michigan, Democrats, 2020, 2024, elections, Trump's America
Detroit voters overwhelmingly pass reparations proposal, but fail proposal that could fund it
Tags: Proposal R, Proposal S, Detroit, Elections, City Council, Reparations
Detroit polling signs had wrong hours, city clerk challenger McCampbell calls it 'tactic to suppress the vote'
Tags: Detroit, city clerk, elections, Denzel McCambell, Janice Winfrey
This is how Detroit’s City Clerk candidates would improve elections
By Metro Times editorial staff
Tags: Metro Detroit, Detroit, elections, city clerk, Cover Story
Voter restriction bills in Michigan face potential DOJ challenge
Tags: Merrick Garland, Justice Department, voting, Michigan, state Senate, state House, Lansing, politics, elections
Racist billboards appeared across metro Detroit on Hitler’s birthday
Michigan Central Station is hiring ‘ambassadors’ to welcome guests this summer
Bombshell Treat Bar readies to open in Berkley