Michigan legislative Republicans have introduced more than three dozen bills that would change the way the state conducts elections. Some of the provisions – like adding a day of early in-person voting – have been treated as a good idea. Others… with scorn.
Merissa Kovach is with the ACLU of Michigan. She says some of the bills are straight-up voter suppression.
“What they're aiming to do here is make it harder to vote," said Kovach. "Make it very complicated to request an absentee ballot for voters to have to pay for postage in order to send an absentee ballot.”
Another GOP sponsored bill would require copies of identification to be turned in with absentee ballot applications. 3.3 million people voted via absentee ballot in Michigan’s November 2020 election on the way to record turnout.