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Group Seeks to Block Abortion Vote in Michigan, Citing Typography
The effort is aimed at keeping a constitutional amendment to guarantee abortion rights off the ballot. A voting access measure is also being challenged.
Conservative groups in Michigan filed challenges this week to efforts to put two constitutional amendments on the ballot in November, one that would guarantee abortion rights and the other that would expand voting access.
The challenge to the abortion amendment was based on a lack of spacing between words, which gave some words the appearance of running together. They characterized the typographical errors as gibberish, and incomprehensible argle-bargle.
One group argued that the Michigan Board of State Canvassers should reject the petition to put that amendment to voters, while a second group took issue with the voting petition, saying it failed to identify every current constitutional provision the amendment would override.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/19/us/politics/michigan-abortion-amendment.html
The board of canvassers will meet on Aug. 31 to decide whether to certify the petitions.
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,451 posts)Roe, Roe, Roe your vote
against theocracy!
Republicans revoke your rights
and kill democracy!
Demovictory9
(32,475 posts)MissMillie
(38,583 posts)...couldn't get on the gubernatorial primary ballot because they sent in fraudulent signatures? Or was that WI?
Buckeyeblue
(5,502 posts)roamer65
(36,747 posts)The pro-Roe ballot proposal got the most signatures ever.