Michigan Citizens-only Voting Proposal Will Not Appear on the Ballot
The measure was blocked after officials found many petition signatures invalid, and the group’s emergency appeals failed in state and federal courts.
- On Thursday, Michigan Supreme Court and the U.S. Supreme Court rejected emergency appeals, blocking a proof-of-citizenship voting proposal from the November ballot one day before the statutory deadline to finalize election materials.
- Last month, the State Canvassers deadlocked on the Americans for Citizen Voting-Michigan campaign, leaving the initiative 17 signatures short of the threshold after the Elections Bureau identified faulty petition signatures.
- ACV argued the Board's strict 48-hour deadline for filing affidavits violated due process for nearly 710,000 petition signers; the Michigan Supreme Court ruled the Board acted within its discretion.
- Kristin Combs, spokesperson for Americans for Citizen Voting-Michigan, said supporters are "deeply disappointed" the measure will not appear this fall after the campaign exhausted all legal avenues.
- With the effort officially over for 2026, Michigan voters will instead consider a constitutional convention occurring every 16 years and an initiative to get "money out of politics" by limiting spending by utilities and large state contractors.
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Michigan citizens-only voting proposal will not appear on the ballot
(The Center Square) – The U.S. Supreme Court declined to take up a Michigan citizens-only voting proposal, just hours after the state Supreme Court denied a petition also seeking to force the initiative onto the ballot.
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