{"id":1605236,"date":"2022-08-14T07:33:15","date_gmt":"2022-08-14T11:33:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1605236"},"modified":"2022-08-14T07:33:22","modified_gmt":"2022-08-14T11:33:22","slug":"trump-backed-karamo-calls-promote-the-vote-initiative-in-michigan-an-assault-on-voting-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-backed-karamo-calls-promote-the-vote-initiative-in-michigan-an-assault-on-voting-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump-Backed Karamo Calls \u2018Promote the Vote\u2019 Initiative in Michigan an \u2018Assault on Voting Rights\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrump-backed-karamo-calls-promote-the-vote-initiative-in-michigan-an-assault-on-voting-rights%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1605236&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Kristina Karamo, the GOP candidate for\u00a0Michigan\u2019s secretary of state, has warned voters that a disarmingly worded ballot proposal to amend the elections section of the state Constitution is really a poison pill.<\/p>\n<p>At an Aug. 10 press conference in suburban Detroit, Karamo outlined the provisions of what she believes to be a cynical ruse to deceive voters into thinking they are voting for more secure elections, when, she says, the opposite is true.<\/p>\n<p>Karamo told reporters that, if adopted by voters in the November midterm election, the liberal-PAC backed \u201cPromote the Vote\u201d initiative would constitutionally mandate the use of absentee ballot drop boxes in every community in the state.<\/p>\n<p>According to the proposal, drop boxes must be accessible 24 hours per day from 40 days prior to the election until 8 p.m. on election day.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2022\/02\/11\/drop-boxes-in-Lansing-Michigan-1-1200x874.jpg\"><\/a> A sign pointing in the direction of a ballot drop box at the Schmidt Community Center polling station in Lansing, Mich., on Nov. 3,2020. (Seth Herald\/AFP via Getty Images) <\/p>\n<p>To illustrate the potential for fraud, Karamo played a short video of a woman who, in broad daylight, was about to deposit a stack of absentee ballots into a drop box.<\/p>\n<p>She suddenly noticed that the outside of the envelopes hadn\u2019t been signed, as required by law.<\/p>\n<p>The woman then got into the passenger-side front seat of a waiting car and proceeded to sign each envelope herself on the dashboard, before dropping them into the box.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat was not an isolated incident in 2020,\u201d Karamo stated.<\/p>\n<p>It is illegal in Michigan for anyone but a small statutorily designated list of persons to have custody of someone else\u2019s absentee ballot.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cPromote the Vote\u201d proposal would also amend the state constitution to permit municipalities holding elections to accept and use \u201cpublicly-disclosed charitable donations and in-kind contributions to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kristina Karamo, the GOP candidate for\u00a0Michigan\u2019s secretary of state, has warned voters that a disarmingly worded ballot proposal to amend the elections section of the state Constitution is really a poison pill. 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