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Clara HendricksonDetroit Free PressThe Michigan Supreme Court Monday said it won t take up a case challenging Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson s authority to mail unsolicited absentee ballot applications.The lawsuit was filed by a Democrat hoping to head off legal challenges to the election results in the face of President Donald Trump s repeated attacks on mail-in or absentee ballot voting ahead of November s presidential election.Michigan s courts have consistently found that Benson acted
Michigan Supreme Court declines to hear lawsuit challenging mass mailing of absentee ballot applications
Updated Dec 29, 2020;
Posted Dec 29, 2020
Dixie Meyers places her absentee ballot vote at Kalamazoo City Hall in Kalamazoo, Mich., Thursday, Oct. 27, 2016. (MLive file photo)Bryan Bennett
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LANSING, MI - The Michigan Supreme Court declined to hear a lawsuit challenging Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson’s power to mass mail absentee ballot applications, according to an order late Monday.
The case was filed by Robert Davis of Wayne County, who has claimed since before August primary that Benson acted outside her legal authority by mailing absentee ballot requests to all registered voters. The Michigan Court of Appeals ruled 2-1 in September that Benson acted legally and furthered the “purposes of informing qualified registered voters of their right to vote by absentee ballot – if they so choose.”
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The Michigan Supreme Court rejected a Wayne County resident s bid to revisit the certified electoral outcome of the 2020 presidential election.
Robert Davis, a Detroit-area activist who previously sued former Gov. Rick Snyder, claimed Michigan Secretary of State Joyce Benson exceeded her legal purview by mailing absentee ballot applications to all residents. In a 6-1 ruling handed down on Tuesday, the court disagreed, stating that most of the judges were not persuaded that the questions presented should be reviewed by this Court.
The initial challenge was filed in June when Davis asked the Court of Claims to issue a preliminary injunction that would have ceased the mailings. Davis lost in two separate rulings where several judges found the secretary of state was vested with the power to mail out applications.
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