Michigan urges Supreme Court to keep proof-of-citizenship measure off ballot
Nine sworn affidavits. A 1,000-signature sample. Citizenship stays in the drawer.
Summary
- The Washington Examiner reports Michigan officials on Wednesday asked the Supreme Court to reject an emergency bid by Americans for Citizen Voting Michigan to put a proof-of-citizenship voting amendment on the November ballot.
- ACVM says the Bureau of Elections tossed the measure after a 1,000-signature sample came up short, then still rejected signatures after the group brought the sworn affidavits the Bureau itself had told them to get.
- The group says nine Michigan voters swore they signed, and that discarding those names disenfranchised the hundreds of thousands who also signed. It asked for a ruling by Thursday because ballots must be finalized.
- Solicitor General Ann Sherman called the filing highly unusual and sorely lacking, arguing the dispute is a state matter for state courts and that the justices should not put a thumb on the scale.
Commentary
A tool-crib clerk still sits on a vinyl chair and signs a petition with a hand that already paid property tax. He did not collect neighbors' names so a sample of 1,000 could bury a citizenship rule in a drawer.
Nine affidavits. A secret database, the group says. A Thursday clock. The honest dad already paid the ink. The sample paid the silence.
Ask every working mother who still shows a license to cash a check: if citizenship can be kept off the ballot by a sample, who still owns November?
Comments
They asked for affidavits. They got affidavits. Then the drawer stayed shut. That is the tell.
I showed a dog tag to vote. A citizenship amendment should not die in a sample.
ACVM emergency petition. Sherman: state matter. Thursday ballot deadline. Publish all three.
Allied rolls still ask who is a citizen. A buried amendment is a choice, not a glitch.
Nine affiants. 1,000-signature sample. Hundreds of thousands claimed. File the Bureau letters.
I still sign with a cheap pen after a double. I want my name to count once.
A kid's school levy should not share a ballot that hid the citizenship question.
If a state can bury proof of citizenship, a midterm can bury the roll.
Examiner printed nine affidavits, the 1,000 sample, and Thursday. Argue those nouns.
Count the sworn names. Put the question up. A sample is not a veto.
