Whitmer, Gilchrist & liberal activists prepping to fight Republican voting bills, potential petitions – MLive.com

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LANSING, MI – Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has made it clear: voting bills introduced in the Michigan Senate aren’t getting past her desk.

Democrats blasted the 39 bill package introduced last week, particularly controls on the mail-in ballot process. Republicans pitched the package with the slogan “easier to vote, harder to cheat,” which Whitmer and liberal activists aren’t buying.

Read more: Michigan Senate GOP debuts election reforms critical of Secretary of State’s handling of November election

“It is unacceptable,” Whitmer said Wednesday morning on CNN. “If and when those bills get to my desk – and they are aimed making it harder for people to vote – they will get vetoed.”

With a veto inevitable, Democrats think the next step is a potential citizens petition to ratify the Senate bills and undo Proposal 3, which Michigan voted to pass no-reason absentee ballot voting in 2018. It’s a path the Governor’s office will employ every avenue to stop, said Lt. Gov. Garlin Gilchrist Thursday.

Gilchrist joined Tiffany Muller, executive director of the liberal PAC End Citizens United during a Thursday, April 1 media availability to discuss what they’re calling “voter suppression” laws from Michigan Republicans.

“We have the power to veto this legislation should it ever pass the Legislature,” Gilchrist said. “As (Muller has) alluded to, Republicans are so afraid of voters, so willing and eager to avoid the will of the people…and run toward their own small, petty, political and partisan goals that they are now working to take advantage of loopholes to completely undermine the integrity of the voting process by going against the will of the people, as was so clearly stated three years ago.”

Some of the proposed measures in the Senate package include pre-registering 16-year-olds to vote if they have some form of state ID, easing electronic voting for active duty overseas military, overhauling county canvassing of election results and not allowing Benson or future secretaries of state to use their likeness on election material paid with public money.

Liberal activists are focusing their criticism on the bills that control absentee ballot applications, mailing and submission. Muller pointed to the 67% support of Proposal 3 in 2018 as evidence that Michiganders oppose the Republican plan.

“The people have spoken,” she said. “These reforms are so successful that the state had unprecedented turnout with more than 5.5 million people voting.

Read more: Democrats challenge ‘easier to vote’ pitch in Senate GOP election package

Michigan Republican Party Chair Ron Weiser confirmed plans for a petition drive last week during a speech to the North Oakland Republican Club, saying it would only happen should Whitmer veto the Senate package.

“(The Senate package) would create an opportunity for us to have a fair election in 2022,” he said at the time. Weiser’s comments were captured in a video shared on social media.

To put a petition to put a new statutory law on the 2022 ballot, Republicans would have to collect more than 340,000 signatures.

“It’s a gross abuse of the system,” said Muller, “especially given its goal to prevent people, particularly Black and brown people from voting.”

The Michigan GOP in a Twitter post called these claims of racism from Democrats as “lies and misinformation,” requesting specific examples. Gilchrist pointed to bills requiring more documentation to be submitted with absentee ballot applications and restrictions on ballot drop boxes.

“When you’re talking about things that make it more difficult to vote, (it’s) because of ID requirements that many low-income people or people of color don’t have,” he said. “Make it more challenging to deploy things like ballot drop boxes that were shown to be incredibly effective in all types of communities for increasing voter turnout.”

The Michigan GOP pointed to a poll that shows Black Americans support more photo ID laws, though it was one conducted by Rasmussen Reports. The polling site suggested former Vice President Mike Pence block the certification of six states’ Electoral Colleges on Jan. 6.

Muller said any potential petition would meet opposition from her organization’s 150,000 members in Michigan.

“One of the things we will be doing is trying to both raise awareness of these efforts to keep people from voting, to stop people from voting and making sure that we’re really activating our memberships to organize in efforts to stop these bills from becoming (law).”

Gilchrist said the effort will also come from Whitmer’s office and her political allies in Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson and Attorney General Dana Nessel.

“We’re going to do everything that we can…whatever tool we deploy in our toolbox, and certainly the Secretary of State, Attorney General, Governor…we all stand at the ready to deploy them to make sure we can beat this back again,” he said.

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