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A package of bills intended to implement Proposal 2 was introduced this week and taken up for a Senate Elections and Ethics Committee hearing this afternoon. Senate Bills 367 to 374, sponsored primarily by committee members, provide an outline for the new constitutional requirements local governments will be required to...

We’re sharing this from our friends at the Michigan Department of State. It’s a call to action for more election workers for the upcoming Nov. 8 general election. The Michigan Department of State is seeking help in addressing our state’s critical need for more poll workers for the November Election...

On Wednesday, the last legislative session day before the election, the House and Senate acted on dozens of bills well into the evening. The biggest legislative item was an agreement on a roughly $1 billion budget supplemental (SB 844). Of that funding, $846 million will go toward the Strategic Outreach...

This term, Senate Republicans unveiled their 39-bill package to address concerns with elections security, operations, and access stemming from the 2020 elections.  Our members on The League’s Elections Subcommittee reviewed the bills based on our interpretation of our role as stewards of the community and administrators of the electoral experience....

The Secretary of State is mailing absent voter ballot applications in advance of the August Election to registered voters in the state. The state will not send absent voter ballot applications to voters on local permanent absent voter ballot application lists, understanding that clerks are already sending applications to these voters. Additionally,...

The Bureau of Elections has released complete regulations for digital signature collection for collecting and submitting signatures by e-mail as soon as possible. These include the following: There are special blank countywide nominating partisan and countywide nominating non-partisan petitions for use in this election only, on the BOE website. If a...

This morning, a US District Court Judge Terrence Berg issued a court order that changes the April 21 filing deadline and rules for some candidates. This ruling is in response to a lawsuit filed against the State argued Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s stay-at-home order presented barriers to qualifying for the ballot.  You can...

The Bureau of Elections released the following information last night for local units of government to request reimbursements for their costs related to the March Presidential Primary election.  The Governor recently signed Senate Bill 151, a supplemental appropriation that included $14 million to cover the costs of the March election. ...

By Executive Order 2020-27, Gov. Whitmer will be temporarily suspending the rules and procedures relating to the May 5, 2020 elections so that these elections may be conducted by absent voter ballot to the greatest extent possible. Rules and procedures relating to the withdrawal of ballot proposals from the May...

(Click here to watch the Facebook Live video) We covered a lot of ground in the Michigan Municipal League’s first ever – Monday Morning Live broadcast on Facebook Live. And while the live broadcast that took place 10:30 a.m. this morning is over you can still watch it anytime on...