A bipartisan state elections board meets Friday to decide if the campaign to ban political committees linked to utilities and public contractors has gathered enough signatures to qualify for the November ballot.
A preliminary analysis released last week by the Michigan Bureau of Elections found the Michiganders for Money Out of Politics campaign gathered enough signatures with just a small cushion of extras.
But the business-aligned group Protect MI Free Speech argues that random sample missed many problematic signatures – enough to stop the initiative.
“There’s more than enough questionable signatures in there to invalidate what we’re looking at right now, and so
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