Posted on 07/17/2021 1:28:07 PM PDT by an amused spectator
Michigan Republicans want to pass a blitz of legislation that restricts the right to vote in the key battleground state — and they have an audacious plan to get their ideas enacted, even though they have to contend with a Democratic governor who could ordinarily veto their bills.
State lawmakers proposed 39 different bills targeting elections, including ones that restrict absentee voting, a bill that could prevent the state from certifying elections, and a pair of bills that would give ordinary poll workers a simply extraordinary amount of power to restrict voting.
Until recently, Michigan seemed safe from the kind of anti-voting legislation that has proliferated in GOP-controlled states like Georgia and Texas. The state has a Democratic governor, Gretchen Whitmer, who could veto bills that seek to skew future elections toward the Republican Party, and the GOP’s majorities in the state legislature are too small to override a veto.
But, early this month, the state’s Senate Majority Leader Mike Shirkey (R) announced that Republicans plan to invoke a process that could allow them to bypass the governor’s veto and pass a package of “half a dozen” election-related bills. Under the state constitution, a relatively small group of voters can propose legislation through a petition and then this legislation can be enacted by the state legislature. Using this process, the GOP-controlled legislature could enact this package by a simple majority vote in both houses, and Whitmer would be powerless to veto it — although Democrats could potentially force a voter referendum on the GOP package...
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As cunning as a fox who’s just been appointed Professor of Cunning at Oxford University?
The Mitten of all Mittens
Which they would cheat to defeat.
Hey! That could be the new Democrat Party slogan - "Cheat to Defeat!"
Is Gretchen popular over there? Did the fake kidnapping hoax get her some pity points ?
If the state legislatures have the Constitutional power to set state election law, then why is the governor even able to veto any of these election laws?
Unpopularity means nothing when you live in an oligarchy. Our betters stay in office until they tire of it.
Wretched Hitler is almost as popular as backside boils. She’s a one and done.
Not a hint of bias in that article. Nope, none.
We used to call people like Ian “retarded.”
Wait….Republicans willing to fight dirty???
Shocked!
Either Ian Millhiser is just plain stupid or he/she is intellectually dishonest/corrupt. None of the laws states are passing restrict the right to vote or keep people from voting. Most restrict illegal voting, fraud voting and dead voting by requiring accountability for mail in voting and absentee voting as well are voter ID. Apparently Milihiser wants anyone who breathes (or doesn’t) to be able to vote regardless of legal status.
“If the state legislatures have the Constitutional power to set state election law, then why is the governor even able to veto any of these election laws?”
Read the article, it explains that the governor can’t veto a law passed by the people of the state.
Read the article, it explains that the governor can’t veto a law passed by the people of the state.
I read the article. The article states what the "state constitution" allows. My question was about what the US Constitution allows.
Ian Millhiser Profile and Activity - Vox
https://www.vox.com Ian Millhiser is a senior correspondent at Vox, where he focuses on the Supreme Court, the Constitution, and the decline of liberal democracy in the United States. (Well, let’s help that decline along.)
“Vox”
non-living-abled voters
I've heard that the people of Michigan are unhappy with the Pubbies grabbing their ankles for the Michigan Mean Girls.
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