GOP push for new voting restrictions in Michigan ramps up ahead of June 1 deadline

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Michigan Republicans' effort to get around Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's vetoes and implement new voting restrictions via a petition drive is set to ramp up this weekend, with a new push to gather signatures in time to meet a late-spring deadline and make the changes ahead of November's midterm election.

As warmer weather arrives in the Upper Midwest, "Secure MI Vote," the group behind the petition drive, is starting to dispatch hundreds of signature-gatherers across the state to festivals, parades, farmer's markets and outdoor sporting events.

It's the beginning of a sprint to a June 1 deadline. And "Secure MI Vote" is the highest-profile petition out of several being circulated head of summer deadlines -- including one backed by progressive groups and dubbed "Promote the Vote" that effectively seeks to undo the Republican effort.

The petition drive is the latest in a years-long effort by Michigan Republicans, seizing on former President Donald Trump's lies about widespread election fraud being responsible for his 2020 election loss, to halt what had been a Democratic-led march toward more expansive mail-in voting, early voting and more there.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/gop-push-for-new-voting-restrictions-in-michigan-ramps-up-ahead-of-june-1-deadline/ar-AAVbKbM

Today's GOP hates democracy.

[Walleye]

1. We are in a life and death global struggle against the enemies of democracy. they keep up this shit

[abqtommy]

2. Every member of "today's GOP" should be in jail/prison. Why aren't they? nt

[Kaleva]

3. Citizen's arrest is an option

"A number of cases have arisen recently in the state of Michigan that have raised questions about the existence and legitimacy of the ability for private citizens to be able to make a “citizen’s arrest.” In general, private citizens are not allowed to act like police and arrest people they believe need to be arrested. Michigan law, does however allow for a private citizen to make a citizen’s arrest in certain circumstances, they include:

• The ability to make an arrest for a felony committed in the person’s presence;
• The ability to make an arrest if the person has committed a felony outside of the person’s presence;
• The ability to assist a peace/police officer in making an arrest if the officer asks for help; and
• The ability to make an arrest if you are a merchant or agent of a merchant and stop someone to prevent them from committing a listed crime. Listed crimes include retail fraud in the first degree, and retail fraud in the second and third degree."

https://www.michigancriminallawyers-blog.com/when-are-you-allowed-to-make-a-citizens-arrest/