I encourage everybody here to vote “no” because we should not be passing bills in this chamber for things that already do not exist because all that does is perpetuate and validate a lie that is dangerous.
Senators McBroom and Johnson asked and were granted unanimous consent to make statements and moved that the statements be printed in the Journal.
The motion prevailed.
Senator McBroom’s statement is as follows:
I appreciate the kind references that a couple of my colleagues have made to the work of the Oversight Committee, but I wanted to make sure that on the record, we correct just one particular statement—I have a lot I could say about this issue but I’ll let the report speak for itself—but I want to make sure to correct one thing in particular, that the report does not call for any specific person or name the individual who was mentioned earlier as a person whom the Attorney General should investigate. I want to be very clear on that. The report does not name names in that particular situation and did not do so. That is a mischaracterization that is broadly being spread around by individuals and I want to clarify that.
Senator Johnson’s statement is as follows:
This bill we’re speaking about—House Bill No. 4838—is currently in the manual for best practices for the Secretary of State. I would like to remind people that signature verification was also in the book of best practices that was changed by our current Secretary of State, so the verification is not what it used to be. It’s a good idea to take this bill and take the best practices and put them into law so they can’t be changed. I would like to remind people that in the House, a lot of people understand that, that sometimes best practices by the administration need to be law. This is one of them. The vote was 77-31 in the House of Representatives. I urge you to vote for this bill.
The following bill was read a third time:
House Bill No. 4492, entitled
A bill to amend 1954 PA 116, entitled “Michigan election law,” by amending section 662 (MCL 168.662), as amended by 2004 PA 92.
The question being on the passage of the bill,
The bill was passed, a majority of the members serving voting therefor, as follows: