Conservative activists filed paperwork to put a strict photo ID requirement on the ballot in Michigan, the first step in an unusual legislative maneuver designed to enact restrictions despite opposition from the state’s Democratic governor.
in July. But Jamie Roe, a political strategist working with Secure MI Vote, said the organization was separate from the state's Republican Party.
“It’s extreme, it’s outlandish, it’s anti-Democratic in the most basic way,” said Nancy Wang, executive director of Voters Not Politicians, a group that used another citizen’s initiative to create an independent redistricting commission in 2018. But Wang argued the proposed ID requirements are so strict the would deter some voters. Her group has already distributed thousands of flyers urging people not to sign such a petition and is in the process of printing thousands more to continue that work.
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