100PercentFedUp.com by Patrice Johnson and Jeff Schaeper, Michigan Fair Elections, and Pure Integrity Michigan Elections
In a stunning new development, MI Senator Ed McBroom, the same feckless RINO who signed off on a report stating there was “no evidence” of mass voter fraud in the 2020 election in Michigan, and Democrat Senate Majority Leader Winnie Brinks, have cut a deal that will likely hand the third-party Electronic Registration Information Center (ERIC) more of Michiganders’ private, personally identifiable information.
Senate Bill 339 started as good legislation. Tucked among an onslaught of bad bills, it promised to allow voters the opportunity to track the status of their absentee ballots on a website or a mobile application. Pure Integrity Michigan Elections, PIME, supported SB 339 for its increased transparency to voters and the accountability it promised to place on those handling the people’s ballots. Then State Senator Ed McBroom (R) met with Senate Majority Leader Winnie Brinks (D), and the bill took a dark turn.
McBroom offered to change the bill’s language. He cut a phrase here and added a sentence there. What emerged was a bill that threatens residents’ privacy rights.
McBroom, without consulting Sen. Ruth Johnson, the ranking Republican on the Senate Elections and Ethics Committee, agreed to strike bill language that restricted the state from sharing residents’ personal information. Then, he added wording to expand the government’s authority to share voters’ private and personal identifying information (PII) with “individuals authorized by the secretary of state to maintain the electronic tracking system…
