LANSING (AP) — A judge last Thursday refused to stop the secretary of state from sending unsolicited absentee ballot applications to millions of voters.
An application is merely an application — and can be thrown away if someone doesn't want to act on it, said Court of Claims Judge Cynthia Stephens, who rejected a request for a preliminary injunction.
The plaintiffs, Yvonne Black and Nevin Cooper-Keel, are Republican candidates for the state House. Cooper-Keel said the applications are a ploy to encourage early voting and rob him of an opportunity to campaign.
Black and Cooper-Keel are "unable to demonstrate the existence of a particularized irreparable harm, and they are unable at this stage of the litigation to establish a likelihood of success on the merits," Stephens said.
Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, a Democrat, has defended the absentee ballot application as a way for people to skip a polling place where they could be at risk for the coronavirus. Some
counties are sending their own mailings.
"Between local clerks and our Bureau of Elections, the applications are all in the mail. Arrival times depend on the mail," Benson spokeswoman Tracy Wimmer said.
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