LANSING, Mich. (Great Lakes News) – The group “Secure MI Vote” has six months to collect at least 340,000 signatures for a ballot petition that would tighten Michigan’s election laws, including requiring identification to vote.

“The proposals that we’re making…are both common sense and will restore that confidence ,” said Jamie Roe, Spokesman for “Secure MI Vote.”

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Once the group collects the signatures and gets approval from the Michigan Board of State Canvassers, the legislature can pass the initiative without the governor’s signature or a public vote.

In addition, the petition targets absentee ballots. If those don’t have a driver’s license number or the last four digits of a Social Security Number, the ballots would not counted unless proper I.D. is provided.

The “Secure MI Vote” measure is similar to the “Unlock Michigan” petition passed in July. After the group collected enough signatures and took the state board of canvassers to court after it failed to certified the signatures, lawmakers in Lansing repealed the 1945 emergency powers law used by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer at the start of the pandemic.

Whitmer used the 1945 law as the basis of her COVID-19 executive orders which continued the lockdown of schools, instituted capacity limits, and kept restaurants in limbo for months on end.

Matt Grossmann, a political science professor at Michigan State University, said Michigan is unique since it allows initiatives that are not sent to the ballot to be approved by the legislature without the governors support.

The petition is getting push back from the group “Voters Not Politicians” and Democrat lawmakers.