When they’re done legislating on Sept. 20, Michigan lawmakers will head down the street for a bipartisan softball game at a minor league baseball park. Organizers hope it will encourage colleagues to work together.
Jonathan Oosting
Jonathan is a deputy editor for Bridge Michigan. He helps plan and execute in-depth reporting and campaign coverage. As a longtime political reporter, Jonathan was named 2021 Journalist of the Year by the Michigan Press Association. He and a colleague shared that honor again in 2023, when they were also named Journalists of the Year by the Society of Professional Journalists – Detroit Chapter. Jonathan covered the state Capitol for The Detroit News and MLive before joining Bridge in September of 2019. He's from Grand Rapids, lives in Lansing and loves spending time Up North.
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Muskegon fake voter applications probed in 2020, referred to FBI, Nessel says
Republicans claim a double standard because no charges were filed after scores of ‘clearly fraudulent’ voter applications were submitted. State officials say the system worked to detect fraud, no one voted as a result.
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Records: Michigan voting machines exchanged at mall, ‘manipulated’ in hotels
A court filing reveals new allegations in the felony case against Trump loyalists accused of using a private investigator to collect voting machines in an effort to prove the 2020 election was rigged.
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Michigan GOP: Bid to limit Kristina Karamo’s authority may prompt legal action
Frustrated Michigan GOP activists plan to meet Friday and vote on resolutions to limit the authority of state party chair Kristina Karamo’s authority.
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Michigan eyes miles-traveled charge for roads as EVs cut into fuel tax
Michigan’s new budget funds $5 million in research into a mileage-based tax to fund road repairs. The state will also seek federal grant funding for a pilot project.
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Who are the Trump loyalists investigated, charged in vote machine tampering case
An Election Night mistake by a GOP clerk in northern Michigan ignited a global conspiracy theory and claims that Trump loyalists confiscated and examined voting machines in a quixotic bid to prove the 2020 election was rigged.
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Pro-Trump attorney is third indicted in Michigan vote machine probe
Michigan attorney Stefanie Lambert Junttila was charged Thursday with felony charges. She is accused of illegally accessing voting machines following the 2020 presidential election in an attempt to prove Trump’s unfounded claims.
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Trump indictment: How Michigan, Detroit factor into charges over 2020 election
‘Help me get this done in Michigan,’ a co-conspirator texted a key lawmaker. The latest indictment alleges pressure from the Trump campaign urging state officials to help overturn his 2020 election loss
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Matthew DePerno, ex-Rep. Daire Rendon charged with vote machine tampering
The two are the first to face criminal charges into allegations Trump supporters broke open vote tabulators in an effort to prove the 2020 election was rigged.
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Recall petitions approved for Rep. Cam Cavitt, rejected for 7 others lawmakers
Canvassers approve petition targeting Republican for voting for Democrat Joe Tate as House speaker. Efforts to target other lawmakers were rejected for not being sufficiently clear.’