The Headlines Primary Election Day 2024 is just a few days away, so I wanted to share a few concerns that are on my mind, as well as an election success from Voters Ed Fund. First, an unprecedented number of elected local clerk positions have no one running to fill them this year. Local clerks […]
Read More >The Headlines As expected, the federal court has officially ordered the map submitted by the Michigan Independent Citizens Redistricting Commission to be adopted and used for Michigan State Senate elections through 2030. That means this redraw is officially over! When this court-ordered redraw started, many bad outcomes were possible, including legislative district maps created by […]
Read More >The Headlines There’s no news on the redraw this week, as we await responses from both parties to the Reviewing Special Master’s report. The court’s final decision is due by next Friday, but we wouldn’t be surprised if it comes sooner than that, and will update you as soon as it does. While Voters Not […]
Read More >The Headlines Last Friday was the deadline for the plaintiffs to submit any objections to the maps that the MICRC submitted to the court, and as expected, they had none. Now we are only waiting on the Reviewing Special Master’s report and final court approval to make the new state senate maps official. That means […]
Read More >The Headlines Late yesterday afternoon, the MICRC, after five rounds of single-choice voting and one round of ranked voting, chose the Crane A1 map as the remedial draft senate district plan to submit to the court. This map, which will be used for the first time in 2026 if approved, provides new opportunities for historically […]
Read More >The Headlines Today is the final day of the official public comment period in the state senate redraw, after months of outreach to residents by both Voters Not Politicians and the MICRC. Now the commission will need to take the feedback they’ve received from voters and use it to settle on a final map that […]
Read More >The Headlines I want to start this week’s update with a reminder that independent redistricting is still the best way forward for Michigan voters and those in other states! I was recently quoted alongside experts from Common Cause and the Brennan Center in an article from Democracy Docket that shows experts agree that a “politician-free” […]
Read More >Editor’s Note (06/10/2024): We want to clarify that we did not produce the Promote the Vote map scorecard that the Michigan Advance article mentions. We very much appreciate Promote the Vote’s analysis which informs our own, but uses slightly different data and metrics. The second paragraph under “The Headlines” has been revised to clear up […]
Read More >Just because the legislature is out of session doesn’t mean our grassroots lobbying work is over. We’re launching our summer session of legislative action! Voters Not Politicians is excited to be organizing grassroots lobbying walks and Legislative Town Halls in key house districts just in time for the legislature’s summer recess. Grassroots Lobbying Walks Representatives […]
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