Posted on 09/27/2012 7:46:16 AM PDT by cripplecreek
The city of Detroit plans to remove a citizenship question from ballot applications before the November election - another direct challenge to the Republican secretary of state's authority to require the check-off box.
"There's no mandate," Detroit Elections Director Daniel Baxter told MLive on Wednesday. "The governor vetoed that part of the bill. There's no legal requirement for electors to declare their citizenship when they go to vote. That's the bottom line."
Election workers will black out the box ordered by Secretary of State Ruth Johnson, he said.
Johnson spokeswoman Gisgie Gendreau said Johnson still expects local clerks to use the form prescribed by her. She said Detroit's elections bureau - at the request of the state elections bureau - agreed on Wednesday to hold off on covering up the citizenship box until a federal judge rules in a related lawsuit.
Baxter could not be reached for comment late Wednesday afternoon.
The state on Tuesday sent instructions to clerks noting that - consistent with an October 2011 communication - existing ballot applications without the citizenship question could only be used through the August primary but it should appear on all applications starting with the Nov. 6 election.
Detroit, the state's largest municipality to administer elections, has about 560,000 registered voters.
The American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan and other groups sued last week to stop Johnson - the top elections official in the state - from requiring local clerks to ask the citizenship question.
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So non citizens can vote.
That has to include non residents too.
Please send me a registration for your state, so I can cast a ballot, too.
Void all the applications that have been defaced in this manner. If you are a legal citizen you should not have a problem stating so on the form. It’s simply stating a fact. I don’t know why people have such a problem with this (actually I do know, but I’m just being dramatic).
Take it up with the ACLU and they might just agree with you if they think you’ll vote democrat.
yes, there is a mandate- if they are not citizens they are not allowed to vote
Can the Sec of State jail this ass hole and go over her head?
Great thread:
Off topic but I know you can send this out to everyone in Mi. We can win Mi if we get the Catholic vote to come out and vote for Mitt. This utube is awsome and should be shared with all in MI by e-mail.
Crosslink
What are you guys tring to do, take votes away from edemocrates? What is the big deal with checking a box unless you are a non citizen and voting illegally in this country. The same for voter ID, how long does it take to get an ID card? If you cannot get an ID card in four years or even two months your pretty lame.
The check box is really rather meaningless but is an admission of guilt if an alien votes illegally.
TREASON!
Yeah, well .. I don’t know if it is still true, but I remember as a kid being told defacing currency was a federal crime and if that is true, isn’t a ballot a federal entity and thus subject to the same defacement penalties ?
So the Sec of State should state that the votes will not be counted for statewide or national results. Problem solved.
I know it will never happen, but it is what should happen.
When the residents whine about being "disenfranchised" just tell them that since they want to make their own rules, the effect of those rules need to be limited to the areas which make them. That also goes for allowing thugs with nightsticks to patrol polling places in order to discourage voting by people of the wrong color.
If so you can challenge such ballots at the time they are counted. The clerk's stray mark would undoubtedly count.
They are just blatantly stealing elections, they know the whole system is in their favor
Defaced ballots and/or voter registration are invalid. I’m sure the Republicrats will jump all over this.
Sec State should not count those votes.
Sounds like they're trying to bring back the good old days just one more time.
BANANA REPUBLIC!!!
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