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The Board of State Canvassers voted, 4-0, to place Reproductive Freedom for All and Promote the Vote 2022 on the Nov. 8 ballot. RFFA, on the ballot as Proposal 3, would guarantee the right to an abortion after Roe v. Wade was overturned. PTV, on the ballot as Proposal 2, would expand voting rights and access in multiple ways, including nine early in-person voting days and requiring Michigan to fund absentee ballot drop boxes. “The questions we asked last week,” Houskamp said, “really, truly were nonpartisan questions. I think the justices answered that.”The amendments will join Proposal 1 on the ballot, which canvassers approved three weeks ago.

Michiganders will vote this fall on a significant expansion of voting rights and access after the Michigan Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a proposed constitutional amendment belongs on the ballot. Justices ruled, 5-2, ordering the Board of State Canvassers to place Promote the Vote 2022 on the November ballot, where voters will see it as Proposal 2. The Board thus has a clear legal duty to certify the petition.”PTV piggybacks off a 2018 ballot measure in which Michiganders approved excuse-free absentee voting. “We applaud the Michigan Supreme Court for seeing through the baseless and ridiculous claims of our opposition and holding that the voters of Michigan should have the opportunity to make their voices heard on this important issue,” said PTV president Khalilah Spencer in a statement. Read more from MLive:Michigan Supreme Court approves abortion proposal for November ballotMuskegon prosecutor chosen for DePerno vote machine tampering investigationTax cuts for Michiganders unlikely until after midterm electionsNorthern Michigan city councilor found on Oath Keepers member list

Those leading the Promote the Vote 2022 ballot initiative in Michigan have filed an appeal with the state supreme court after a board declined to certify their proposal for the November ballot.

Promote the Vote 2022, a proposed constitutional amendment to expand Michigan voting rights and access, is asking the state Supreme Court to overrule the state panel that voted to keep it off the November ballot. But the four-member Board of State Canvassers on Wednesday deadlocked, 2-2, on whether to accept the bureau’s recommendation that PTV go on the ballot. Michigan’s seven-member Supreme Court has four Democrats and three Republicans, giving hope to Prop 2 proponents that justices will overturn canvassers’ decision. “The ‘challengers’ have made frivolous arguments to block this proposal,” Khalilah Spencer, Promote the Vote 2022 president, said in a statement Thursday. Read more from MLive:Abortion rights proposal likely headed to court after Michigan canvassers don’t certifyNessel rejects DePerno’s debate request in Michigan attorney general raceHeaded up north for Labor Day?

LANSING, MI – A ballot proposal to expand Michigan voting rights and access will have to wait to go on the November ballot after the state’s top election board Wednesday deadlocked on whether to approve it. Promote the Vote 2022 would expand voting rights and access in multiple ways if passed, building on top of a successful 2018 campaign to legalize no-excuse absentee voting in Michigan. It followed more than four hours of public discussion and debate between lawyers and board members. Because canvassers did not certify PTV, which they declared Proposal 2 in case it is eventually approved, it will have be ordered on the ballot by a court. Michigan voters will see term limits, financial disclosure proposal on November ballotTerm limit proposal opponent group broke campaign finance law, complaint says

Two proposed constitutional amendments to secure abortion rights in Michigan and increase voting access have more than enough signatures to make the ballot, the state Bureau of Elections said Thursday. Staff completed signature checks of Reproductive Freedom for All and Promote the Vote 2022, which needed 425,059 valid signatures each to make the ballot. Bureau staff conducted a facial review of petition sheets to find errors that may dismiss entire papers. Then they took a random sample of possibly valid signatures. Reproductive Freedom for All had 596,379 valid signatures, bureau staff estimated, and Promote the Vote 2022 had 507,780, figures both well above what was necessary.

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