{"id":1628869,"date":"2022-08-31T23:49:12","date_gmt":"2022-09-01T03:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1628869"},"modified":"2022-08-31T23:49:36","modified_gmt":"2022-09-01T03:49:36","slug":"michigan-board-of-canvassers-denies-place-on-ballot-for-proposed-election-and-abortion-amendments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/michigan-board-of-canvassers-denies-place-on-ballot-for-proposed-election-and-abortion-amendments\/","title":{"rendered":"Michigan Board of Canvassers Denies Place on Ballot for Proposed Election and Abortion Amendments"},"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%2Fmichigan-board-of-canvassers-denies-place-on-ballot-for-proposed-election-and-abortion-amendments%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=1628869&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>Two citizen-initiated petition drives to amend the Michigan Constitution failed to secure a place on this fall\u2019s general election ballot due to textual deficiencies.<\/p>\n<p>The decisions were made by the Board of State Canvassers (BSC) at a meeting held on Aug. 31.<\/p>\n<p>One petition sought to make election practices that the Republican-controlled state legislature has tried repeatedly to reform or ban into constitutional mandates\u2014things like the use of absentee ballot drop boxes and the funding of elections by private groups.<\/p>\n<p>Governor Gretchen Whitmer, a Democrat, has vetoed more than a dozen such <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-election-integrity\">election integrity<\/a> reform bills, calling them \u201cvoter suppression.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The other petition would make abortion a constitutional right in Michigan.<\/p>\n<p>Whitmer has publicly vowed to \u201cfight like hell\u201d to keep abortion legal in Michigan in the wake of the overturning of Roe v. Wade by the U.S. Supreme Court.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2020\/10\/18\/Michigan-Governor-Gretchen-Whitmer-2020-10-17-0-1200x800.jpg\"><\/a> Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is seen at Beech Woods Recreation Center in Southfield, Mich., on Oct. 16, 2020. (Chip Somodevilla\/Getty Images) <\/p>\n<p>Both petition drives obtained more than the requisite number of valid signatures to appear on the ballot.<\/p>\n<p>Advocates for each proposal vowed to appeal the BSC decisions to the Michigan Supreme Court.<\/p>\n<p> Ballot Proposal <\/p>\n<p>A ballot proposal to amend the Michigan Constitution to mandate absentee ballot drop boxes in every community and allow the private funding of elections failed to obtain a place on the Nov. 8 general election ballot because of textual deficiencies.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, the proposed amendment would allow people to vote on a regular ballot without a photo ID by signing an affidavit.<\/p>\n<p>Critics fear the proposal would also open the way for convicted felons and jail inmates to vote.<\/p>\n<p>The proposal called Promote the Vote, which is backed by left-wing political action committees and opposed by conservative groups, did not receive a majority vote for<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two citizen-initiated petition drives to amend the Michigan Constitution failed to secure a place on this fall\u2019s general election ballot due to textual deficiencies. The decisions were made by the Board of State Canvassers (BSC) at a meeting held on Aug. 31. 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