By Mark | November 1, 2020
In the 2016 presidential election, 63% of eligible voters in Michigan cast their ballots. The total number of voters that year was 4,874,619. And, as we know, Donald Trump won the state with the slimmest of margins. Just 10,704 votes — a mere 0.23% of the votes cast — decided which candidate we’d give our […]
Posted in Michigan, Politics, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged 2020, 2020 election, absentee ballots, Andrew Hellenga, call to action, COVID, Donald Trump. Joe Biden, Election Day, Hillary Clinton, Jocelyn Benson, post office, voter suppression |
Georgia held both its Republican and Democratic primaries today, and things did not go smoothly in many of the state’s bluer districts. [This was, of course, by design.] As it’s late, I’d just like to leave you with the following five Twitter posts. If, after considering them, you should find yourself agreeing with me that […]
Posted in Civil Liberties, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged Atlanta, Brad Raffensperger, Eric Holder, Fair Fight, Georgia, gerrymandering, racism, Stacey Abrams, voter suppression, voting, Voting Rights Act |
Yesterday, saying that “every Michigan citizen has a right under our state constitution to vote by mail,” Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson announced that all voters in our state will be receiving absentee ballot applications in the mail. Well, this apparently didn’t sit well with Donald Trump, who tweeted out the following in response. […]
Posted in Michigan, Politics, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged 2020, absentee ballots, CARES Act, Claude Taylor, COVID-19, Donald Trump, election fraud, Election Security Grants, Jocelyn Benson, pandemic, public health, Secretary of State, swing states, threats, vote by mail, voter fraud, voter suppression |
I get that it’s important, from a public health perspective, to track the total number of active COVID-19 cases over time. Having a sense as to how many people have been diagnosed at a given point in time, should, in theory, give you a sense as to what you might expect a week or two […]
Posted in Health, Michigan, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged coronavirus, COVID-19, Donald Trump, election rigging, Epidemiology, fatality rate, impeachment, Mitch McConnell, public health, R0, Susan Rice, Ukraine, vote by mail, voter suppression |
By Mark | November 26, 2019
It looks as though we’ve just taken another big step toward addressing gerrymandering in the state of Michigan today, as U.S. District Court Judge Janet T. Neff thew out the case by the Michigan Republican Party to block the nonpartisan redistricting ballot initiative passed overwhelmingly by Michigan voters. 61% of the voters in Michigan voted […]