DON’T SIGN PETITION FOR ANTI-VOTER MEASURE

Did you know that all voter registration forms require the voter to attest to their citizenship under penalty of perjury?  Despite this, a proposal to amend Michigan’s constitution is circulating that would require voters to provide documents to prove their citizenship in person at a clerk’s office.  If the name on the birth certificate does not match a voter’s current ID, the voter will have to present other paperwork – marriage license, court orders, etc. This will block many voters who don’t have easy access to these documents from exercising their constitutional right to vote.   We suggest that voters DECLINE TO SIGN the petition. Read this piece authorized the by the LWVMI co-presidents published in Bridge Magazine titled, “A Solution to a Problem that