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Poll taxes became a tool of disenfranchisement in the South during Jim Crow, following the end of Reconstruction. Payment of a poll tax was a prerequisite to the registration for voting in a number of states until 1965. The tax emerged in some states of the United States in the late nineteenth century as part of the Jim Crow laws.
Oakland County: 31,071. Macomb County: 24,798. Kent County: 20,689. Genesee County: 11,614. Want to see the breakdown in your county? Top 5 Michigan counties of those who have returned ballots by mail
A Michigan Court of Appeals panel moved to dismiss charges against a Kent County poll worker who inserted a USB drive into a poll book after polls closed during the 2022 August primary election.
A judge this week ordered Michigan Republican Party Chairperson Kristina Karamo and others to pay more than $58,000 in legal fees incurred by the Detroit clerk’s office to fight a lawsuit they ...
Trump secured Michigan with 49.7% of the vote, winning 74 counties out of 83, including the state's third-most populous Macomb County. Conversely, Harris won seven out of Michigan's 10 most populous counties, including Wayne County, the state's largest. [244] [245]
Michigan approved plans to expand Medicaid coverage in 2014 to adults with incomes up to 133% of the federal poverty level (approximately $15,500 for a single adult in 2014). [ 2 ] In 2018, the state electorate passed proposals to create an independent redistricting commission , [ 3 ] and to legalize the recreational use of marijuana .
The map below compares votes cast in the 2024 presidential election to those cast in 2020 by Michigan county. It shows the shift in the vote margin between the Republican candidate, Trump, and the ...
While Trump carried Kent County on his way to winning Michigan in 2016, Democrats at the top of the ticket have won there in each statewide election since 2018. Trump, in what’s become a ...