Last year’s U.S. Supreme Court decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission granted corporations (and unions) the right to directly and expressly back political candidates, and triggered an enormous new wave of political spending. Now watchdog groups are trying to find ways to make sure voters can see who More…
Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette and Secretary of State Ruth Johnson announced Monday they had filed charges against the owner of a Lansing medical marijuana dispensary who allegedly offered free pot for registering to vote.
Skekina Pena, owner of Your Healthy Choice Clinic, was arraigned Monday at 54-A District More…
The recall election of state Rep. Paul Scott (R-Grand Blanc) is on track to hit the November ballot after a Genessee County judge on Monday ruled against the lawmaker.
Scott is being targeted by the Michigan Education Association for recall because of his votes related to school funding and More…
Recent appeals court rulings on the state’s medical marijuana law have led to legal problems for dispensaries and an effort to recall Attorney General Bill Schuette.
A coalition of groups, including Demos, Project Vote, the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law (LCCRUL), and the NAACP, sent a letter to Michigan Secretary of State Ruth Johnson last week alleging that the state is in violation of federal law requiring voter registration at public assistance offices.
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An anonymous robocall is being sent to voters in Michigan with an ominous and inaccurate warning: Signing petitions could result in identity theft.
Blogging for Michigan has the audio, and presents this transcript:
This is an identity theft alert. Petitions are being circulated door-to-door and at public
Gov. Rick Snyder on Tuesday signed a GOP redistricting plan into law. The new law resets the state’s district maps for state house and senate elections as well as federal congressional elections.
In what could be a prelude to similar elections in Michigan, six Republicans state legislators in Wisconsin faced recall votes yesterday and four of them managed to hold on to their seats. Democratic challengers took two seats away, one shy of the number they need to take control of the More…
ABC is reporting that White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel could announce as early as Friday that he’s leaving the administration to run for mayor of Chicago, but its local Chicago affiliate is casting some doubt on whether he’s legally eligible:
The Alaska Division of Elections said yesterday that it has more than 20,000 absentee and questioned ballots left to process, according to the Anchorage Daily News, meaning that the squeaker of a primary race between Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) and challenger Joe Miller is far from over.
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