LANSING, MI — Summary language for three ballot petitions were approved Wednesday at the Michigan Board of State Canvassers meeting, where officials debated 100-word petition summaries for more than five hours.
Three petition summaries cleared the first step of the process but will still need further approval from the board before beginning to collect signatures: One petitions aims to raise Michigan’s minimum wage to $15 by 2027, another is a constitutional amendment to establish reproductive rights and the third would create an alternative election audit board.
Mary Ellen Gurewitz, a Democrat from Detroit, joined the board for her first meeting Wednesday after being nominated to the position by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.
Audit MI proposal
The fallout from Trump’s lies about the 2020 general election continued Wednesday in the form of a proposal submitted by the Audit MI ballot committee that would take the state’s election audit out of the hands of the Secretary of State.
Tami Carlone of Audit MI, who identified herself as a forensic auditor, said citizens must have confidence in elections to protect their freedoms.
“We need full confidence from the voters in the state of Michigan,” said political consultant Jon Rocha, adding that the proposal was a long time in the making. Rocha is a Republican state House candidate endorsed by Trump.
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