by Patrice Johnson | December 20, 2024
The House lame duck may be dead, but the Senate is alive and clucking. In fact, Senators stayed in session all night, and today they are peckish to pass a slew of election integrity-gutting bills. The House already passed these bills, so if the Senate passes them, Governor Whitmer will sign them into law.
Call your Senator today. As far as PIME knows, the Republicans are all opposed, but they are in the minority until January.
Here are the election-related bills that need to be stopped:
6052: Serial (stub) numbers are one of the last remaining bastions against ballot vote fraud, yet 6052 eliminates the requirement for on-demand-printed ballots to have serial numbers. On-demand printing, allows people to vote early and election day from anywhere (even though our state has no real-time electronic system to keep track of new or changing registrations). With no absentee ballot numbering system to enable tracking which ballots were issued to whom in what jurisdictions, how would anyone be able to challenge fake ballots that have flowed into the ballot stream?
6053 imposes laches of 45 days, meaning complaints on polling places, drop box locations, and early voting will be inadmissible less than 45 days before an election.
6055 is an assault on elected local clerks. It takes away local control of elected clerks to administer elections. Instead, 6055 requires a school district “coordinating committee...to designate the clerk responsible for the school district election.”
5551 opens the door to lawfare and discrimination. It prohibits “an individual from being a member of the board of state canvassers” or “board of county canvassers if that individual has been convicted of an election-related offense.” What is an election-related offense?
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