One vote can make a difference. That was the takeaway from a nationwide survey by the Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF) that found 29 elections ended in ties and another 18 were decided by a single vote thus far in 2024. “If people ever think their votes don’t matter, I hope they remember these tied […]

Amid a projected $418 million state surplus for Fiscal 2025, Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, a Democrat, is proposing to slash $8.3 million from the Office of the Auditor General’s (OAG) $30 million annual budget. The independent and non-political OAG has been the target of criticism from Michigan Democrats and Republicans over the years. The partisan […]

A coalition of election integrity and voting rights leaders made an unsuccessful 11th-hour appeal to the U.S. Senate on March 13 to block the District of Columbia Council from giving non-citizens the right to vote in municipal elections. Though the House of Representatives had passed a resolution of disapproval with strong bi-partisan support in February, […]

Election Watch (EW), a Wisconsin election integrity watchdog organization, has discovered that more than 150,000 votes cast in the 2020 presidential election cannot be connected with a valid address. EW computer analyst Peter Bernegger said the group’s study of Wisconsin’s voter rolls found 45,000 such occurrences involving people who were living out of state in […]

Just days before the Nov. 8 midterm election, a Waukesha County Circuit Court judge was asked to sequester the state’s military absentee ballots until they are properly verified. The lawsuit (pdf), called Concerned Veterans of Waukesha County (et al) v. the Wisconsin Elections Commission (WEC), was filed on Nov. 4 by a team of lawyers […]

Wisconsin state Assemblywoman Janel Brandtjen, a Republican, worries that not enough has been done to prevent the upcoming midterm election from becoming a replay of 2020. “Going into the midterms, a person can still register, get a ballot, and vote before his or her identity and address are verified with the Wisconsin Department of Transportation, […]

“I shot somebody. It was an accident,” said a 74-year-old Michigan homeowner in a Sept. 27 video interview with TV-8 News of Grand Rapids. The Odessa Township man admitted to shooting an 84-year-old pro-life volunteer who was knocking on doors in her community trying to persuade people to vote “No” on a proposed amendment to […]

Former U.S. Attorney General William Barr bolstered the Jan. 6 Committee’s case that the 2020 presidential election was the “most secure in history.” He also did his best to debunk Donald Trump’s claim that the 2020 election was stolen from him. Barr, a Trump-appointed Republican, testified in a pre-recorded deposition aired nationwide on June 13. […]

Extended rent moratoriums and the slow distribution of billions in federal rent assistance are driving many small landlords to call it quits. “Nobody wants to become a landlord anymore,” said Diane Baird, executive director of the Lake Erie Landlord Association. “And we have very few new people entering into the business.” The Lake Erie Landlord […]

LANSING, Mich.—The Michigan House of Representatives on July 21 voted in favor of repealing the Emergency Powers Act used by the governor to implement COVID-19 restrictions. The vote follows the approval of the repeal by the state Senate last week and means the law is officially off the books. The House voted 60-48 to repeal […]