Ballot measure

Michigan lawmakers want to tweak voting reforms and make it more difficult to get a measure on the ballot.
Conservative politicians are watering down and reversing some of the midterm election’s progressive victories.
Voters approved anti-gerrymandering measures and extended the right to vote to over 1.4 million people.
And tech CEOs from Twitter and Salesforce are arguing about it on social media.
Organized labor hopes the win will help stop the spread of the anti-union laws.
If voters approve, redistricting power would be transferred from state lawmakers to an independent commission.
A conservative group says that creating an independent redistricting commission amounts to revising the state constitution and can't be done via a ballot measure.
“People [are] feeling a strong feeling that elected officials are not solving their problems, representing their views and that the legislature has failed to act and it’s time for Michigan citizens to fix the problems.”
After a bitter fight, the city council could tweak or kill the measure that passed.