[EL] Michigan Secretary of State seeks to block ballot initiatives by special interests

[Bev Harris]

> Michigan Secretary of State seeks to block ballot initiatives by special
> interests

In New Hampshire, when citizens in  the town of Swanzey put an item on the local
ballot to allow the public to see the counting of the vote, the secretary of
state actually showed up in Swanzey denouncing those citizens as a "special
interest group"; meanwhile, the vendor in charge of counting the votes on the
ballot measure as to whether to keep its own self in control of vote counting
was not considered a "special interest."

Only the handful of hardly even organized and mostly broke public citizens
were called a "special interest" group by the Sec. State. Even though New
Hampshire prohibits a party who is on the ballot from counting the votes, the
vendor that counted the votes on the ballot measure pertaining to whether it
should countthe votes was never called a special interest and despite a request
by the citizens for a ruling as to whether it was legal for that vendor to be
in charge of the vote counting mechanism, no ruling was ever made.

I'm curious as to how the term "special interest" would be described used in
Michigan.

Bev Harris
Founder - Black Box Voting
http://www.blackboxvoting.org



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