Voting

Early voting bill clears state house

A bill that would allow people to vote in person on the Friday, Saturday and Monday before Election Day passed the state house today.
If the bill passes the state senate and is signed into law, Michigan will join 31 states that already allow some form of early voting.

Twelve ways to safeguard your vote

If you’re like a lot of voters out there, you’re concerned that you might not be allowed to vote due to some red tape or some partisan challenge at the polls, or that your cast vote might not count due to some dirty tricks by partisan hackers or electronic vote tabulator error.

Rachel Maddow on long voting lines

Rachel Maddow had an excellent riff on her show this weekend about long lines to vote and the fact that this is, in essence, a poll tax.

Bishop opposes effort to help students in Michigan vote

Republican Senate Majority leader Mike Bishop called a county clerk effort to help student voters “illegal” and is asking the Attorney General’s office to determine if it should be blocked, the Grand Rapids Press reports.

Early voting in key states favors Obama

The Obama campaign has long maintained that their voter registration and get out the vote programs were going to result in record turnout by Democrats in this campaign. If the results of the first few days in the states that allow early voting are any indication, they’re right. The New York Times reports on the [...]

Voting 101: everything you need to know

Registration, voter ID, absentee ballots all explained

Voting rights group: “We are sitting ducks for another Ohio here in Michigan”

Prepares to monitor Tuesday’s primary in two counties, the general in November

Secretary of State predicts primary turnout

The primary is next Tuesday. But how many will take time on a hot August day and go to the polls? Secretary of State Terri Lynn Land estimates that out of the 7.2 million Michigan residents registered to vote, 1.4 million voters will cast ballots in the Aug. 5 primary.

How cell phones can skew political polls

Their popularity makes accurate polling more difficult
As more and more Americans, particularly younger people, do away with landline telephones and begin to use cell phones exclusively, experts on public opinion research both inside and outside of the industry have been struggling to come to terms with how this might affect the accuracy of telephone polls [...]

U.S. Supreme Court to hear voter ID case

The U.S. Supreme Court will take on voter ID laws this week in a politically charged case that could determine how easy it is to vote in several key states, including Michigan.

On Jan. 9 the court will hear arguments about the Indiana voter ID law that requires voters to produce a state-issued photo ID in [...]