11 MI Lawmakers Sue MI SOS Jocelyn Benson and MI Director of Elections In Federal Court
Eleven Michigan lawmakers are suing Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson and Jonathan Brater, Director of the Bureau of Elections over their usurping the power to change voting laws from the state legislature, which holds the sole power to set laws according to the US Constitution and the Michigan Constitution. The lawsuit claims the 2018 and 2022 state constitutional amendments that times, places, and manner of federal elections is a legislative task and not left to a single elective official acting alone.
These state constitutional amendments included provisions that allow voters to sign affidavits instead of presenting valid identification when voting in person or applying for an absentee ballot; nine days of early voting; private funding of election administration; no-excuse absentee vot...