Michigan Sen. Tom Barrett (R-Charlotte) signed the organization’s election integrity initiative. | Secure MI Vote/Facebook
Michigan Sen. Tom Barrett (R-Charlotte) signed the organization’s election integrity initiative. | Secure MI Vote/Facebook
Numerous polls show that people across the political spectrum support showing a photo ID in order to vote. Secure MI Vote is a political effort aimed at restoring integrity to Michigan's elections.
Jamie Roe, spokesperson for Secure MI Vote, is a Republican strategist from Detroit who established Team Roe, an organization that supports politicians who embrace voter integrity laws.
"To have a healthy republic, the people must have confidence that reported election results are accurate," Roe said to Detroit City Wire. "That’s why we included provisions like voter ID and keeping special interest money out of the administration of elections. Those are reforms embraced across the electorate, even if security reforms are rejected by leftist leadership. The results of this poll mirrors all public polling on these issues and is why we are so confident in the success of the Secure MI Vote effort.”
Remington Research Group released a survey that concluded the majority of state voters desired more election security measures. Americans for Citizen Voting conducted the poll and found that over 75% of voters supported "requiring voters to show a government-issued photo I.D. in order to vote."
Currently, voters need only a utility bill or bank statement to vote and not a photo ID, according to the Michigan secretary of state's website.
Secure MI Vote is an organization that hopes to attract backing for new election laws that will make Michigan's voting laws more secure. The group promotes laws that would require photo IDs when voting and an ID or Social Security number for an absentee ballot, according to their website.
The group also wants to create rules forbidding the unwelcome delivery of absentee ballot applications, barring private contributions to fund election set-up, and for gathering absentee ballots and drop-off boxes.
The Michigan state legislature passed laws that enhance ID rules for in-person and absentee voting last year, but Gov. Gretchen Whitmer vetoed the legislation, according to The Detroit News.
"To be clear, there is no evidence that use of affidavit ballots is related to voter fraud," Whitmer said in a letter. "In fact, the Michigan Senate Oversight Committee recently concluded that the 2020 election produced no significant evidence of fraud."
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