Elections

The week in political news, including Board of State Canvassers holding two petition drives off the ballot, and a recap of the state GOP convention.

Confusion over abortion access petition language hangs over this week's Board of State Canvassers meeting.

This week's news has been filled with court challenges in reproductive rights and one Republican Attorney General nominee under fire for alleged election tampering. Zoe Clark returns to the host chair for a panel with three journalists discussing these two developments in Michigan politics.

The League of Women Voters says it's launched a program to observe election canvassing and report irregularities.

Misinformation campaigns and the possibility of local election officials resisting a part of their job came up during a Michigan Secretary of State press conference Monday.

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

Andy Levin, an Oakland County Democrat, has introduced the Enhanced Pay for Election Workers Act in the U.S. House. It would provide states with grants to boost pay for poll workers.

The courts said James Craig, Perry Johnson, and Michael Markey failed to collect enough valid signatures and that’s reason enough for the Michigan Bureau of Elections to keep them off the ballot.

An update on the State Board of Canvassers' hearing to decide which candidates will appear on the August primary ballot.Then we hear from GOP gubernatorial candidate and Michigan State Police Captain Mike Brown who has withdrawn from the race.And then two discussions about the recently released Federal investigation on Native Boarding Schools and their deadly legacy.

On the podcast we talked about the more than a dozen prospective candidates seeking office in Michigan who have been kicked out of primary contention because of oversights made in their filings.