In April 2017, the ACLU filed a friend-of-the-court brief in the Sixth Circuit in support of a lawsuit that would prohibit discrimination against blind voters. 

In several states, such as Oregon, Wisconsin and New Hampshire, an online ballot-marking tool allows blind voters to mark absentee ballots privately and independently, without forcing them to rely on sighted individuals to cast their ballot for them. Our brief argues that this accommodation is legally required under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). 

Students at Michigan State University contacted the ACLU of Michigan when they discovered that university rules interfered with their ability to register students to vote in their dorms. 

The ACLU of Michigan is the leading proponent of Promote the Vote, a proposed constitutional amendment to strengthen voting rights and modernize our election system in Michigan with no-reason absentee voting, same-day voter registration, and other important reforms. 

In Michigan, registered voters may vote without showing a photo ID if they do not have photo ID or if they did not bring one to the polls. All they have to do is sign a statement identifying themselves, and they can vote just like those with photo ID. 

Unfortunately, there is much confusion about this law, which differs from laws in some other states with strict voter ID laws. Each election, we receive complaints about false or misleading notices or posters at polling places stating or implying that people cannot vote in Michigan without picture ID. 

In an effort to end the extreme partisan gerrymandering that threatens to undermine the legitimacy of our system of representative government, the ballot committee Voters Not Politicians submitted more than 425,000 signatures to put a constitutional amendment on the November 2018 ballot. 

Michigan voters approved Proposal Three – Promote the Vote – in today’s election. With more than 1.7 million voters casting ballots in favor of the initiative backed by the ACLU of Michigan and other non-partisan civic, labor, business, environmental and civil rights organizations.

The American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan is reaching out to more than 100 clerks across the state today urging them to inform voters that state law allows voters to cast a ballot with or without photo identification.  In a letter sent to the clerks, the ACLU is asking that they post clear, accurate information about voter identification requirements at voting sites next Tuesday, November 6, to eliminate any confusion.

Promote the Vote (PTV), a measure to secure voting rights in Michigan, has been certified by the Michigan Board of State Canvassers, which voted unanimously this morning to certify the measure to appear on the November 6^th  general election ballot.

The ACLU of Michigan and Promote the Vote (PTV), filed a complaint in U.S. District Court asking that the PTV ballot initiative, a measure to expand voting rights in Michigan, be placed on the November 6^th ballot. This follows the State Board of Canvassers and Bureau of Elections failure to properly validate the petition signatures PTV was required to gather to place the initiative on the ballot. By failing to certify these signatures, the state has violated the voting rights of Michigan citizens who support the PTV initiative.

The ACLU of Michigan is conducting an election of members to its State Board. This year we elect 12 at-large candidates and 2 Local Unit candidates to the 22-member Board of Directors. Read the candidate’s biographies. 

You, as an ACLU member, may vote Yes or No for each candidate by filling out our online ballot here.