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.
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This Memorial Day weekend, look closely at these faces.
They are barely men. Most of the boys who flew our heavy bombers over Europe were in their late teens and early twenties. The average age of a B-17 crew was under 25. Many of the gunners were teenagers who climbed into those planes before they were old enough to vote or buy a drink.
And their odds were brutal. The Eighth Air Force lost between 26,000 and 28,000 of these young men, roughly one in ten of every American killed in the entire war. In 1943, the math was so cruel that finishing a full tour of missions was nearly impossible.
They knew the risk. They went anyway.
These boys never got to come home to a wife. They never got to hold a child. They never got to teach a son to throw a ball or walk a daughter down the aisle. Everything they might have been, every birthday and Christmas and quiet ordinary evening, they traded so that we could have ours.
That is the cost behind the word freedom. It was never free, and it was never cheap.
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