3 research outputs found
Secure MI Vote: Creating Insecurity for Community Polling Places
How a Republican ballot initiative could eliminate 20 percent of Michigan polling places by prohibiting the use of donated spaces: an analysis of religious spaces used as polling places in the 2020 election. This report includes an outline of how communities across the state could be affected and the challenges this would present to local clerks and voters, based on interviews with local clerks
Michigan GOP Election Protection (Insurrection) Effort: The Michigan Republican Party partners with conspiracy theorists and insurrectionists to recruit election workers
The Michigan Republican Party has teamed up with a coalition of national and local Republican and right-wing groups to recruit paid election workers and credentialed volunteer poll challengers. These groups include an alarming combination of Big Lie conspiracy theorists, people who worked to overturn the 2020 election results, groups involved with the January 6 insurrection, and people who have celebrated political violence