Michigan Democrats Against Securing Elections

Compare and Contrast:

The Detroit News: Proposal requiring proof of citizenship to vote falls short votes in Michigan House

and

NPR: Michigan election review finds 16 non-citizens likely voted in November 2024 presidential election

We've gone from Democrats in the state saying:  No non-citizens are voting in our elections, our elections are totes secure;

to Democrats now saying, well, at least one non-citizen voted in the 2024 election, and his ballot counted, but it's not a real problem;

to Democrats now saying at least 16 non-citizens voted in the 2024 election but it's still super rare and just fine;

One can expect Democrats to start saying it is just fine and dandy that non-citizens are voting any day now.  

Given that you can vote in  Michigan with no ID at all, using an affidavit claiming you're a citizen,  and you can vote with just a student id card - which does not establish citizenship in any way, it's a rather clear and unnecessary vulnerability. Combine it with motor voter registration, and its an open door for non-citizens to vote in this state, and other shenanigans.

But, Michigan Democrats won't close the loophole. Instead, they consistently vote against measures to prevent that happening.

Funny, that. 

Voted

Was voter #94 this morning so there's been a reasonable in-person turnout already at my precinct.

Overall, it proceeded rather smoothly, although the fellow in front of me caused a bit of a hold up. Apparently his claimed new address did not match his current driver's license, nor his voter registration records which were for a different precinct, so he got sent to the town hall to sort it out. Good to see they're checking at least that much.

So if you haven't voted yet, you have a small window left to make sure you understand the issues, the proposals, and then choose people who best represent your views, and vote accordingly.

One Would Think That English Proficiency Is A Requirement For Citizenship

If you though that, you would be correct.

While the USCIS deems this a requirement part of the steps to become a US citizen, apparently some in Dearborn think otherwise.

The Detroit Free Press: Arab American advocates ask Dearborn for Arabic-language voting help, ballots

Apparently requiring citizens to know enough English to vote disfranchises people, or something:

"With the largest concentration of Arab Americans, the city clerk should on his own initiative make sure that all voting information is available in Arabic, including on the web," Ayoub said. "It's skewing voter participation and it's a method of voter suppression."

How about no? After all if you're a citizen you should have demonstrated enough English to be able to vote.  Failing that, you can use online translation programs ahead of time to figure it out.

Interesting if True About the Spike For Biden in Michigan

While I'd like to see further confirmation of this claim,  waiting on the MSM to do it would be a fool's errand.  If true, it's statistical proof of tomfoolery in Wayne County's ballot counting that pushed Biden over the top in this state.

American Thinker: What a computer expert said about voting results in Michigan

Here's Ramsland's explanation: "The several spikes cast solely for Biden could easily be produced in the Dominion system by preloading batches of blank ballots in files such as Write-Ins, then casting them all for Biden using the Override Procedure ... that is available to the operator of the system."

"There were 289,866 more ballots processed in the time available for processing in four precincts/townships, than there was capacity," said Ramsland.

In plain English, that means they counted almost 300,000 more ballots than physically possible.

"This is not surprising because the system is highly vulnerable to a manual change in the ballot totals as observed[,]" said Ramsland. "[W]e believe that these statistical anomalies and impossibilities together create a wholly unacceptable level of doubt as to the validity of the vote count in Michigan, and in Wayne County, in particular."

In short, based on this expert's calculations, it would have been impossible to process that many ballots in those precincts without cheating and manually over-ridding and entering results as the counting machines simply could not process that many ballots in the time allotted. In short - there were statistically too many ballots to process in the time it was stated it took to process them - by a lot.

Or, in the most charitable light, this potentially means that Wayne County government workers were able to work faster, harder, and more efficiently than Wayne County government workers have ever worked in both living and recorded history.

That charitable explanation is most unlikely.

Voted. Civic Duty Done. Now We Wait.

Voted this morning.  

No waiting except for the two people in front of me who went to the wrong precinct because they couldn't read a map, they should have gone to Precinct 15 and instead they came to mine which is visibly marked Not Precinct 15, and decided to argue with the polling staff at length about it.

Did I mention at length?

Including having their IDs scanned repeatedly and being repeatedly told that they needed to go to precinct 15? Repeatedly.  Even given directions to it just down the street, can't  miss it?   Apparently there's a bit of a line over at Precinct 15 (which they knew about which is curious) and these two wanted to either vote faster, or they were going to try to vote in multiple spots.

The Poll staff did not give in and let them vote anyways, but directed them to 15.  

Repeatedly.  

Quick tip: If you're a registered voter in Michigan and even now don't know where to vote either check your voter registration card or even better go to: 

Where is My Polling Place 

enter your info, and then go to the polling place it indicates.  Easy-Peasy.  

That they didn't do this before they decided to show up does make me wonder about their overall civic intelligence, or what they were actually trying to do, but whatever.

Well, once they were taken care of I was able to get my ballot and go vote and get it done.

One weird part is instead of the ballot placing parties randomly on it, the Democrat candidates were always listed first in each category, then Republicans then other parties.  Not too typical, and I'm sure our Democrat Secretary of State had nothing to do with that change, which can also be seen on the sample ballot online.

It's a big ballot this year with lots of important races, so hopefully you've done your research and you choose wisely.

This Can't Possibly Be Suppression Of Rural Republican Votes Now Can It?

WILX10:  Some voters are still waiting for absentee ballots

Interesting goings-on with voters who have applied for absentee ballots who happen to live in Eaton Rapids, MI  -  the goings-on being they'r=ve not received their ballots yet.

Apparently these applications were somehow not processed by the Secretary of State:

However, some voters in Eaton Rapids Township are still waiting on their ballot.

Eaton Rapids Township Clerk Robin Morgan told News 10 she’s not getting absentee ballot applications from the state’s website.

. . .

 The Michigan Secretary of State’s office said this was an isolated incident and it was fixed Wednesday and ballots are now being issued.

 Funny how that isolated incident preventing voters from getting their absentee ballots, just happened to effect a solidly Republican area of Michigan.  This has nothing to do with our Secretary of State happens to be a dyed-in-the wool Democrat and ourt Governor promising to deliver the state for Biden.

Clearly just a coincidence, neh?

Since Trump won Michigan by only 10,704  votes in 2016,  and there's over 36,000 registered but non-existed voters in Detroit alone, it won't take much Democrat chicanery to narrow that margin. 

Making isolated incidents that just happen to make it harder for predictably Republican areas to cast their ballots is an interesting move in that direction.

Gov Whitmer Vetoes Anti-Voter Fraud Bill For Reasons

Our very own Governor Half-Whit has vetoed a bill that would help combat voting fraud in Michigan.

Why? She claims it would be confusing.

The Detroit News: Whitmer vetoes voter fraud bill, cites redundancy, confusion

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer vetoed bills that would have made it a felony to knowingly try to apply for multiple absentee ballots or to fill out an application for others without their consent.

In other words, by her veto she's good with multiple applications being made, ballot harvesting, and for outright fraud by applying for ballots for others without their consent - what could go possibly wrong?

No Charges Forthcoming In The Case Of The Toilet Ballot Box

The Ingham County prosecuting attorney, while a Democrat, at least knows the law and a parody when she sees one, and announced that no, she is not going to seek criminal charges in the case of the clear toilet ballot drop-box parody.

The DeToilet Detroit News: Complaint flushed: No charge in Mason toilet election display

 While Ingham County Clerk Barb Byrum sought charges against the maker of the parody, as she claimed voting is no laughing matter, and then later stated that "she didn't see the toilet Tuesday".

If that's the case, Ingham County really should reconsider Barb Bayrum as being a clerk in charge of overseeing the election.  If her eyesight is so poor that she can't spot a toilet, she's going to have major problems counting ballots, not to mention detecting fraud.

Then again, that inability to spot fraud as a Democrat clerk in charge of a very Democrat county's elections may very well be a feature rather than a bug.

If You're Dumb Enough To Mistake A Toilet For A Vote Drop-box . . .

Then, well, lets just say The Ingham County Clerk (D) is quite concerned that fellow Democrat voters could mistake a toilet for a voting drop box.

The soft bigotry of low expectations and all that, I suppose.

The Detoilet Detroit News: Official: Toilet display in Mason mocking mail-in voting is a crime

Yep, seriously, she's seeking criminal charges for a clear First Amendment Parody regarding mail-in voting.

A Michigan resident’s apparent joke showing disdain for voting by mail is no laughing matter for one election official.

The resident put a toilet on their lawn with a sign that says, “Place mail in ballots here.”

Barb Byrum, the Democratic clerk of Ingham County, filed a complaint with police over the display, saying it could mislead people who aren’t familiar with the voting system.

Hopefully the police throw the idea of charging the man for his valid and rather humorous protest display right down the toilet.

I guess that if you can't tell the difference between a drop-box for a vote, a Post Office Box to mail a vote in, and a toilet, then you might just be a Democrat.

In Other Election News: A Democrat Get Out The Vote Effort Comes To A Screeching Halt

This particular get out the vote effort lasted all of two minutes.

The Detroit Free Press: 3 men captured attempting escape from Upper Peninsula prison

Gotta try and get that felon vote out and active, but the effort was all for naught.

Three prisoners, assisted by two others, ran for the fence at an Upper Peninsula prison Monday night, but were captured, officials confirmed.

Caught in 2 minutes flat and stymied by the border fence of the prison.  

"It was all over in less than two minutes," he said. "The officers did an excellent job."

All three men climbed to near the top of the first fence before falling and trying again, Gautz said. One had a device he tried to use to help get over the wire at the top of the fence, but it did not work, he said

The three felons, all prime Democrat voters, with resumes including home invasion, armed robbery, and assault, will not be voting in today's primary after all.

Easy In-Person Voting In The Age of Covid

Went and voted in person today in the primary.

No line, there were only two other voters there at the same time I was there.

Checking in, you were requested to wear a mask, and only handle one pen and keep it with you through the entire process.

My id checked (though being n a mask it wasn't exactly a detailed check, but the drivers license matched the info on the voter registration so, it was apparently good enough).  Then in I went. 

I was then handed a ballot and headed to a voting stand to do my voting duty.

Afterwards, I put the ballot in the machine, put the pen in the container marked dirty and voila, done. 

Very easy, no big deal, and no reason not to vote in person at all.

Early Voting Blues, Now With Do-Overs

Michigan's Democrat-inspired early voting is not only causing headaches, it's letting Democrats have free voting do-overs.

The Detroit News: State: Voters spoil 8,000-plus ballots as Democratic field shrinks

In short, you can vote early, then change your mind for any reason and spoil your ballot up until the day before the election and get a do-over.

I'd certainly hope that as part of any do-over they have to first retrieve and destroy your prior ballot, otherwise you're opening the door to letting people vote twice - a potential problem and opportunity for hi-jinx in a primary, a disaster in a general election, and if there's a less than reputable clerk running things (looking at you Wayne County) there's a real nice opening for fraud here.

Of course, this all takes time and money, and under the guise of making voting easier its actually creating opportunities for fraud and for letting people change their minds and their votes, which really shouldn't be permitted.

On the upside it's interesting to see the Democrat powers that be acknowledge they're left with a couple lousy candidates:

Grebner had no doubt Biden would snap up most of the spoiled ballots.

"What I see is a very distinct phenomenon," he said. "All over liberal class America, all we care about is beating Trump and we see Biden as a not very good vessel for our hopes. But we see Bernie as an absolute screaming horror.”

While an understatement, that's pretty much what you got in the candidate pool there Dems.

Civic Duty Done

Went and voted this morning.

Quite a strong turnout, with about a 25 minute wait but overall it went quite smoothly. Since this is a very Democrat-dominated area, make of that what you will.

Be informed, know who and what you're voting for, or who and what you're voting against, and have at it.

Federal Court: Michigan Blacks Are Too Dumb To Vote Without Straight Ticket Option

That's essentially what the decision boils down to.

Michigan attempt to join the 40 other states that have already eliminated straight-ticket voting. The Democrats cried "Foul!" and "Racism!", arguing it was bad for Blacks to have to actually go through a ballot and pick their choices rather than just circling Democrat once, and they found a sympathetic judge to buy their rather frivolous argument.

The Detroit News: Judge: Michigan GOP ‘intentionally discriminated’ with straight-ticket ban