I am writing today to announce the closure of the Michigan Messenger. After four years of operation in Michigan, the board of the American Independent News Network, has decided to shift publication of its news into a single site, The American Independent at Americanindependent.com. This is part of a shift in strategy, towards new forms [...]
An abstinence-only presentation provided to numerous school districts in Calhoun and Eaton Counties in October of this year provided false and misleading information to students about HIV, experts allege.
Two county registers of deeds filed a class action lawsuit Monday on behalf of Michigan’s 83 counties alleging that the Mortgage Electronic Registration Services owes millions of dollars in property title transfer taxes.
Despite evidence of the impact of mercury on children and public health, Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette last month joined with 24 other state attorneys general in filing a lawsuit to scuttle new EPA regulations that would reduce mercury emissions from power plants.
An argument in a voting rights lawsuit yesterday may offer a clue about Secretary of State Terri Lynn Land’s attitude toward Republican plans to challenge voters at the polls.
Judge Stephen J. Murphy III made no decision on the motion for preliminary injunction in the case of United States Student Association et al v. Land, which was heard in the U.S. District Court in Detroit yesterday.
The plaintiffs argued that the state of Michigan is violating the National Voter Registration Act by removing people from voting rolls if their voter ID cards come back as undeliverable or if they file for a driver’s license in another state. The suit asked the court to block these practices because they could disenfranchise people.
The Secretary of State’s Office has not responded to numerous requests for comment from Michigan Messenger.
But according to Bradley Heard, attorney for the Advancement Project, one of the plaintiffs in the case, during yesterday’s hearing, the secretary of state’s Bureau of Elections defended the practice of removing newly registered voters from the rolls when their voter ID cards are returned by claiming that non-delivery of mail is proof of non-residence.
The “no mail, no vote” argument from the secretary of state may indicate that the state will allow election challengers to challenge voter eligibility using returned mail.
Challenging voters using lists compiled from returned mail is something that Eric Doster, attorney for the Michigan GOP, has said he expects his party to do this Election Day.
More on the issues of United States Student Association et al v. Land to come.
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