Election deniers, the legislation they are proposing and their efforts to dismantle Michigan’s voting systems ahead of the midterm elections, are being highlighted as the top threats to democracy in Michigan.

That’s from an analysis by the Washington, D.C.-based Defend Democracy Project, which surveyed grassroots organizers, legal analysts and academic experts to identify what they assess to be the key risks.

The report, “The Three Greatest Threats to Democracy in Michigan,” describes the primary threats as being intertwined.

Yet Rebecca Parks, the research director for the Defend Democracy Project, says there is also coordination among these various efforts.

“We see the same people pop up again and again and again and some of the same groups,” said Parks. “For instance, the sort of floods of public records requests that have just been really inundating county officials asking for sort of nonsensical records or just thousands and thousands and thousands of records from the 2020 elections that we’re seeing all across the country.”

The threats are broadly described as:

• Election deniers working at every level to disrupt the electoral process, starting with training rogue poll workers and encouraging former President Donald Trump supporters to threaten state and local election officials with harassment.
• Advancing legislation, lawsuits, and other initiatives based on fraudulent election conspiracy theories, with the goal of restricting voting access.
• An extensive effort on...

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