FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Secure MI Vote Applauds Board of State Canvassers For Denying Ballot Access to Promote the Vote
Flawed Proposal Violated Constitution in Attempt to Amend
Lansing, MI – Today the Board of State Canvassers deadlocked 2-2 while considering the constitutional amendment put forward by the leftist group Promote the Vote. In order to be approved for the ballot, a proposal must receive a majority vote, including at least one vote from a member from both political parties. Now the proposal will not appear on the state ballot this fall absent intervention from Michigan courts. Secure MI Vote released the following statement after the Board’s actions:
“Michigan’s Constitution has strict rules that must be followed before a proposed amendment can be put before the voters, and Promote the Vote violated those rules,” said Secure MI Vote Spokesman Jamie Roe. “This proposal would render meaningless Article 2, Section 2 of the Michigan Constitution and voters who were asked to sign the petition were not told this fact. Worse yet, the elimination of this provision would allow convicted and incarcerated felons to vote in our elections. Rapists, armed robbers, drug dealers, and home invaders would now be able to vote while still in prison. Murderers would be able to vote, while their victims remain silenced. If voters had been made aware of that fact it is highly unlikely they would have signed the petition.”
“If this terrible proposal were adopted it would not only let murderers vote from prison, it would also make certain that no voter in our state would ever have to show a government issued photo identification before voting and give special interests a constitutional right to fund aspects of government run election administration that benefits their interests. Simply put, this terrible proposal does not belong in our state constitution, and the canvassers got it right in denying it a place on the ballot,” Roe concluded.
"It would be free at the POINT OF CARE."
"That's a trade worth making."
WELKER: You are acknowledging people making less than $1M can see taxes go up?
EL SAYED: We'd be paying healthcare a different way...I'd rather pay into a government.
You literally can't make this up...he calls it free while saying we PAY MORE!!
He's running on raising taxes.
Abdul El-Sayed is the first Democrat to win statewide in Michigan without carrying Wayne, Oakland or Macomb since Bernie Sanders in 2016.
Think about what that tells you!
Bridge Michigan looked at the state's 12 biggest counties with large Black populations. Stevens won seven of them by an average of 8.5 points. Wayne. Saginaw. Genesee.
El-Sayed RAN IT UP IN THE COLLEGE TOWNS instead. Ann Arbor, East Lansing, Kalamazoo. Almost 60 percent, and better than 70 in parts of Ann Arbor.
He built a CAMPUS COALITION in a union state.
So how does this math affect the general election?
Episode 6 of the Lantern Podcast.
Rachel Atwood is a stay at home mom from Grand Rapids, MI who works on the side for Premier Jewelry.
CIA Director John Ratcliffe has made an unexpected, completely unannounced visit to Moscow. This wasn’t planned and almost certainly isn’t about peace negotiations. It points instead to sensitive intelligence or urgent back-channel talks.
The most likely reason: the CIA has picked up information about a potential escalation, possibly involving mobilization plans with Russia, Iran, and China.
These kinds of sudden trips are rarely good news - and strongly suggest the U.S. administration has received troubling signals of something bigger brewing.
