The 2020 election saw record turnout all over this country and in Michigan. More than 5.5 million people voted here in Michigan, with 3.3 million casting an absentee ballot.

You would think that expanded voting rights and access to the ballot would be something that everyone can get behind. But since the election, over three hundred bills to restrict folks' right to vote have been proposed in 47 states. Here in Michigan, some politicians are aggressively pushing bills that would suppress votes, including allowing partisan poll challengers to take video of secret ballots, forcing people to photocopy their ID and mail it to their clerk in order to vote an absentee ballot, and putting up arbitrary restrictions around the use of dropboxes to collect absentee ballots.

For over a century, the US Supreme Court has ruled that arbitrary restrictions on the fundamental right to vote are unconstitutional. In Michigan, over two-thirds of voters voted YES on a constitutional guarantee protecting the right to vote an absentee ballot, winning 80 of 83 counties in the 2018 election.

Please join us today in standing up for the fundamental right to vote.