Michigan Appears Likely to Repeal its Ban on Photographing One’s Voted Ballot

On April 5, both sides notified a U.S. District Court that they have settled the lawsuit Crookston v Benson, w.d., 1:16cv-1109. The case concerns Michigan’s ban on photographing one’s own voted ballot. It seems likely that the state no longer wishes to defend this law. See this story.

The case had been filed in 2016 by a voter who had taken a photo of his own voted ballot in 2012. He was warned that he had violated the law, although he was not prosecuted. The voter won injunctive relief on October 24, 2016, but then four days later the Sixth Circuit had reversed that injunctive relief.

Michigan had a Republican Secretary of State until November 2018, when the voters replaced her with a Democrat. Several election lawsuits in Michigan are now being handled differently, seemingly as a result of different policies by the new Secretary of State. Thanks to Thomas Jones for this news.


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Michigan Appears Likely to Repeal its Ban on Photographing One’s Voted Ballot — 3 Comments

  1. Which regimes are more LAWLESS —

    RED communist ???

    fascist ???
    —–
    How soon before OPEN $$$ bribes for votes via selfies ???

    See baaaaad olde days before official ballots — bribes and threats and job purges.

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