Under the current law, voters who don’t have access to a photo ID can sign an affidavit attesting to their identity. "Michigan Republicans will try every trick in the book to confuse and intimidate voters,” Michigan Democratic Party Chair Lavora Barnes said in a statement. “They want fewer people to vote because they just discovered what we have always known, when people vote, Democrats win. That is what this ballot proposal is all about, creating barriers to voting so fewer people have access to the polls.”Barnes said the initiative would weaken a voter-approved constitutional amendment in 2018 that allowed no-excuse absentee voting and expanded other voting rights in Michigan. Now that we have all seen that we can have a say in our future, there’s no going back.”

Source: MetroXpress August 31, 2021 14:47 UTC