Elections

Election bills are heading to governor’s desk after lawmakers reached a deal this week following months of negotiating.Republican Senator Ruth Johnson chairs the Senate Elections Committee. She says the bill would allow more clerks to pre-process absentee ballots two days before election day. In 2020, clerks could do that pre-processing one day before the election. It would also require county clerks to scrub the deceased from their lists of registered voters at least monthly.

Governor Gretchen Whitmer has vetoed a bill that would set deadlines for calling special elections.

A problem with filing paperwork is disqualifying a handful of Republican and Democratic candidates from Michigan's August primary ballot.

Michigan’s Independent Citizens Redistricting Commission has officially picked the state’s Congressional boundaries for the next decade.

Michigan’s petition initiative process is a mess.