Because of COVID-19, a record number of mail-in ballots are expected to be used in Michigan this year. | Adobe Stock
Because of COVID-19, a record number of mail-in ballots are expected to be used in Michigan this year. | Adobe Stock
State Rep. Beau LaFave (R-Iron Mountain) recently weighed in on the decision issued by Court of Claims Judge Cynthia Stephens, which would extend the deadline for absentee ballots to be received in Michigan.
Stephens recently ruled that absentee ballots will be counted as long as they are postmarked by Nov. 2 and received by the deadline for the certification of election results, according to a post on LaFave's Facebook page.
But LaFave said that Stephens has overstepped her authority in making the decision.
Rep. Beau LaFave
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“The law says the government needs to receive your absentee ballot by Election Day to count,” LaFave said in his Facebook post.
LaFave called Stephens an “activist judge” who “is unilaterally ignoring the law without even an executive order or legislative requests to do so.”
LaFave said that Stephens' decision could extend the time it takes to determine the winners in the November general election by weeks.
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