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A challenge filed with a statewide elections board seeks to keep presidential candidate Cornel West off the general election ballot.

Three people will face trial on felony charges alleging they defrauded the campaigns of several candidates for Michigan governor in the 2022 election cycle.

Each declared GOP U.S. Senate candidate faces calls to investigate signatures on their nominating petitions, and a Democratic U.S. House candidate might not make the cut.

It’s looking like a ballot question to limit service fees on payday loans did not qualify to go before Michigan voters this November.

Michigan medical clinics that provide reproductive services see a sharp uptick in out-of-state patients following the reversal of Roe v Wade. Muskegon Lake is glowing up. Lawn trimming goats work up north. The number of ballot signatures gathered does not necessarily correlate to voter approval. And a conversation with GOP gubernatorial candidate Tudor Dixon.

Activists say the information gleaned from abortion- and voting-rights petition-gathering efforts can be a treasure trove used to create new voter networks.

The Reproductive Freedom for All campaign delivered a record-setting 753,759 signatures to the Michigan Secretary of State. This is one of the final steps of a ballot initiative that aims to make abortion a constitutional right in Michigan.

The coalition behind a ballot question aimed at growing voter access in Michigan says it’s confident it will appear on the November ballot.

About 10 ballot initiative campaigns had been circulating petitions for signatures from voters, but only one submitted its signatures by the state's deadline for the 2022 ballot.

The case filed by Perry Johnson — who’s billed himself as the “Quality Guru” — has been placed on a very fast track to get an appeals court decision as soon as this week. The state has to file its response Tuesday and any reply must also be filed Tuesday.