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{ "count": 18, "next": null, "previous": null, "results": [ { "url": "http://michiganelections.io/api/proposals/8916/", "id": 8916, "name": "Kent County Ready by Five Early Childhood Millage", "description": "SHALL KENT COUNTY LEVY 0.25 OF ONE MILL, WHICH EQUALS 25 CENTS PER $1,000 OF THE TAXABLE VALUE ON ALL REAL AND PERSONAL PROPERTY SUBJECT TO TAXATION, FOR THE PERIOD JANUARY 1, 2025 THROUGH DECEMBER 31, 2030, INCLUSIVE, FOR THE PURPOSE OF PLANNING, EVALUATING, AND PROVIDING SERVICES TO PERSONS THROUGH AGE 5 AND THEIR PARENTS FOR EARLY CHILDHOOD DEVELOPMENT, AND SERVICES TO IMPROVE QUALITY OF CHILDCARE AND TO INCREASE PUBLIC INFORMATION REGARDING AVAILABLE CHILDCARE? THE AMOUNT RAISED BY THE LEVY IN THE FIRST CALENDAR YEAR IS ESTIMATED AT $8,794,547.\n\nIn Kent County there are 31 local authorities that capture and use, for authorized purposes, tax increment revenues from property taxes levied by the County. Such capture could include a portion of this millage levy. The 31 tax increment authorities in Kent County, capturing a portion of this tax levy, include but are not limited to the following:\n\nAda Township – Brownfield Redevelopment Authority\nBowne Township – Downtown Development Authority\nByron Township – Brownfield Redevelopment Authority\nCascade Charter Township – Downtown Development Authority, Brownfield Redevelopment Authority\nCedar Springs, City of – Downtown Development Authority, Brownfield Redevelopment Authority\nGrand Rapids, City of – Downtown Development Authority, Monroe North-Tax Increment Finance Authority, Smart Zone Local Development Finance Authority, Corridor Improvement Finance Authority, Brownfield Redevelopment Authority\nGrand Rapids Township – Brownfield Redevelopment Authority\nGrandville, City of – Downtown Development Authority, Brownfield Redevelopment Authority\nKent City, Village of – Downtown Development Authority\nKentwood, City of – Brownfield Redevelopment Authority\nLowell, City of - Downtown Development Authority\nRockford, City of – Downtown Development Authority, Brownfield Redevelopment Authority\nSparta, Village of – Downtown Development Authority, Brownfield Redevelopment Authority\nWalker, City of – Downtown Development Authority, Brownfield Redevelopment Authority\nWyoming, City of – Brownfield Redevelopment Authority", "reference_url": null, "election": { "id": 57, "name": "State Primary", "date": "2024-08-06", "date_humanized": "Tuesday, August 6th", "active": false, "reference_url": null }, "district": { "url": "http://michiganelections.io/api/districts/56/", "id": 56, "category": "County", "name": "Kent" } }, { "url": "http://michiganelections.io/api/proposals/8917/", "id": 8917, "name": "Kent County Sports and Entertainment Facilities Proposal", "description": "SHALL KENT COUNTY INCREASE THE RATE AT WHICH THE EXCISE TAX IS LEVIED ON ALL PERSONS ENGAGED IN THE BUSINESS OF PROVIDING ROOMS FOR LODGING PURPOSES TO GUESTS STAYING LESS THAN 30 CONSECUTIVE DAYS UNDER PUBLIC ACT 263 OF 1974 AS AMENDED FROM 5% TO 8% OF THE TOTAL CHARGE FOR ACCOMMODATIONS TO BE USED FOR ALLOWABLE USES INCLUDING FINANCING OF THE ACQUISITION, CONSTRUCTION, IMPROVEMENT, ENLARGEMENT, REPAIR, OR MAINTENANCE OF STADIUMS, ARENAS, SPORTS COMPLEXES, AND AQUARIUMS STARTING JANUARY 1, 2025 AND TERMINATING ON THE SAME DAY AS THE COUNTY ORDINANCE ENACTED UNDER PUBLIC ACT 263 OF 1974 AS AMENDED.", "reference_url": null, "election": { "id": 57, "name": "State Primary", "date": "2024-08-06", "date_humanized": "Tuesday, August 6th", "active": false, "reference_url": null }, "district": { "url": "http://michiganelections.io/api/districts/56/", "id": 56, "category": "County", "name": "Kent" } }, { "url": "http://michiganelections.io/api/proposals/8560/", "id": 8560, "name": "Grand Rapids Public Schools Bonding Proposal", "description": "Shall Grand Rapids Public Schools, Kent County, Michigan, borrow a sum of not to exceed Three Hundred Five Million Dollars ($305,000,000) and issue its general obligation, unlimited tax bonds in two or more series for the purposes of:\n\n- purchasing, erecting, completing, remodeling, and equipping or re-equipping school buildings, including library buildings, auditoriums, structures, athletic fields, playgrounds, playfields and other facilities, and parts of or additions to those facilities, and acquiring, preparing, developing and improving sites, or parts of or additions to sites, for school buildings\n- furnishing or refurnishing school buildings and parts of or additions to those facilities; and\n\n- acquiring, installing, and equipping or re-equipping school buildings and parts of or additions to school buildings for technology, technology infrastructure and safety and security improvements?\n\nThe following is for informational purposes:\n\nThe annual millage required to pay the debt service on the proposed and outstanding bonds is estimated to remain at or below the 2023 levy of 3.85 mills. The estimated millage that will be levied for the proposed bonds in 2024 is 1.00 mill ($1.00 for each $1,000 of taxable valuation) for a zero (0) mill increase from the prior year's levy. The estimated simple average annual millage rate required to retire the bonds is 1.83 mills ($1.83 for each $1,000 of taxable valuation). The maximum number of years that any series of the bonds may be outstanding, exclusive of any refunding, will not exceed twenty-six (26) years from the date of each issue.(Pursuant to State law, expenditure of bond proceeds must be audited, and the bond proceeds cannot be used for maintenance costs, teacher, administrator or employee salaries, or other operating expenses.)", "reference_url": null, "election": { "id": 52, "name": "November Consolidated", "date": "2023-11-07", "date_humanized": "Tuesday, November 7th", "active": false, "reference_url": null }, "district": { "url": "http://michiganelections.io/api/districts/1584/", "id": 1584, "category": "Local School District", "name": "Grand Rapids Public Schools" } }, { "url": "http://michiganelections.io/api/proposals/8018/", "id": 8018, "name": "Proposal 22-1 A Proposal to Amend the State Constitution to Require Annual Public Financial Disclosure Reports by Legislators and Other State Officers and Change State Legislator Term Limit to 12 Total Years in Legislature", "description": "This proposed constitutional amendment would:\n\n- Require members of legislature, governor, lieutenant governor, secretary of state, and attorney general file annual public financial disclosure reports after 2023, including assets, liabilities, income sources, future employment agreements, gifts, travel reimbursements, and positions held in organizations except religious, social, and political organizations\n- Require legislature implement but not limit or restrict reporting requirements\n- Replace current term limits for state representatives and state senators with a 12-year total limit in any combination between house and senate, except a person elected to senate in 2022 may be elected the number of times allowed when that person became a candidate\n\nShould this proposal be adopted?", "reference_url": null, "election": { "id": 49, "name": "State General", "date": "2022-11-08", "date_humanized": "Tuesday, November 8th", "active": false, "reference_url": null }, "district": { "url": "http://michiganelections.io/api/districts/1427/", "id": 1427, "category": "State", "name": "Michigan" } }, { "url": "http://michiganelections.io/api/proposals/8019/", "id": 8019, "name": "Proposal 22-2 A Proposal to Amend the State Constitution to Add Provisions Regarding Elections.", "description": "This proposed constitutional amendment would:\n\n- Recognize fundamental right to vote without harassing conduct\n- Require military or overseas ballots be counted if postmarked by election day\n- Provide voter right to verify identity with photo ID or signed statement\n- Provide voter right to single application to vote absentee in all elections\n- Require state-funded absentee-ballot drop boxes, and postage for absentee applications and ballots\n- Provide that only election officials may conduct post-election audits\n- Require nine days of early in-person voting\n- Allow donations to fund elections, which must be disclosed\n- Require canvass boards certify election results based only on the official records of votes cast\n\nShould this proposal be adopted?", "reference_url": null, "election": { "id": 49, "name": "State General", "date": "2022-11-08", "date_humanized": "Tuesday, November 8th", "active": false, "reference_url": null }, "district": { "url": "http://michiganelections.io/api/districts/1427/", "id": 1427, "category": "State", "name": "Michigan" } }, { "url": "http://michiganelections.io/api/proposals/8020/", "id": 8020, "name": "Proposal 22-3 A Proposal to Amend the State Constitution to Establish New Individual Right to Reproductive Freedom, Including Right to Make All Decisions About Pregnancy and Abortion; Allow State to Regulate Abortion in Some Cases; and Forbid Prosecution of Individuals Exercising Established Right", "description": "This proposed constitutional amendment would:\n\n- Establish new individual right to reproductive freedom, including right to make and carry out all decisions about pregnancy, such as prenatal care, childbirth, postpartum care, contraception, sterilization, abortion, miscarriage management, and infertility\n- Allow state to regulate abortion after fetal viability, but not prohibit if medically needed to protect a patient’s life or physical or mental health\n- Forbid state discrimination in enforcement of this right; prohibit prosecution of an individual, or a person helping a pregnant individual, for exercising rights established by this amendment\n- Invalidate state laws conflicting with this amendment\n\nShould this proposal be adopted?", "reference_url": null, "election": { "id": 49, "name": "State General", "date": "2022-11-08", "date_humanized": "Tuesday, November 8th", "active": false, "reference_url": null }, "district": { "url": "http://michiganelections.io/api/districts/1427/", "id": 1427, "category": "State", "name": "Michigan" } }, { "url": "http://michiganelections.io/api/proposals/6611/", "id": 6611, "name": "Millage For Senior Citizen Services", "description": "SHALL KENT COUNTY LEVY .50 OF ONE MILL WHICH EQUALS 50 CENTS PER $1,000 OF THE TAXABLE VALUE ON ALL REAL AND PERSONAL PROPERTY SUBJECT TO TAXATION FOR THE PERIOD 2022 THROUGH 2029, INCLUSIVE, FOR THE PURPOSE OF PLANNING, EVALUATING, AND PROVIDING SERVICES TO PERSONS AGE 60 YEARS OR OLDER? MILLAGE FOR THIS PURPOSE WAS APPROVED IN 1998, 2006 AND 2014. IT IS THE SAME AS THE .50 OF ONE MILL LEVY FOR THE ABOVE LISTED SERVICES APPROVED BY VOTERS THAT EXPIRED IN 2021. THE AMOUNT RAISED BY THE LEVY IN THE FIRST CALENDAR YEAR IS ESTIMATED AT $13,800,000.\n\nIn Kent County there are 31 local authorities that capture and use, for authorized purposes, tax increment revenues from property taxes levied by the County. Such capture could include a portion of this millage levy. The 24 taxincrement authorities in Kent County, capturing a portion of this tax levy, include the following:\n\nAda Township – Brownfield Redevelopment Authority\nBowne Township – Downtown Development Authority\nByron Township – Brownfield Redevelopment Authority\nCascade Charter Township – Downtown Development Authority\nCedar Springs, City of – Downtown Development Authority, Brownfield Redevelopment Authority\nGrand Rapids, City of – Downtown Development Authority, Monroe North-Tax\nIncrement Finance Authority, Smart Zone Local Development Finance\nAuthority, Corridor Improvement Finance Authority, Brownfield Redevelopment Authority\nGrand Rapids Township – Brownfield Redevelopment Authority\nGrandville, City of – Downtown Development Authority, Brownfield Redevelopment Authority\nKent City, Village of – Downtown Development Authority\nKentwood, City of – Brownfield Redevelopment Authority\nLowell, City of - Downtown Development Authority\nRockford, City of – Downtown Development Authority, Brownfield Redevelopment\nAuthority\nSparta, Village of – Downtown Development Authority, Brownfield Redevelopment Authority\nWalker, City of – Downtown Development Authority, Brownfield Redevelopment\nAuthority\nWyoming, City of – Brownfield Redevelopment Authority", "reference_url": null, "election": { "id": 48, "name": "State Primary", "date": "2022-08-02", "date_humanized": "Tuesday, August 2nd", "active": false, "reference_url": null }, "district": { "url": "http://michiganelections.io/api/districts/56/", "id": 56, "category": "County", "name": "Kent" } }, { "url": "http://michiganelections.io/api/proposals/6610/", "id": 6610, "name": "Millage For Veterans Services", "description": "SHALL KENT COUNTY LEVY .050 MILL WHICH IS EQUAL TO FIVE CENTS PER $1,000 OF THE TAXABLE VALUE ON ALL REAL AND PERSONAL PROPERTY SUBJECT TO TAXATION FOR THE PERIOD 2022 THROUGH 2029, INCLUSIVE, FOR THE PURPOSE OF PROVIDING SERVICES IN KENT COUNTY, INCLUDING COSTS TO ADMININSTER OR PROVIDE SUCH SERVICES, TO HONORABLY DISCHARGED VETERANS OF UNITED STATES MILITARY SERVICE, NATIONAL GUARD, AND RESERVES, AND THEIR DEPENDANTS? THIS CONTINUES THE .050 MILL FOR VETERANS SERVICES ORIGINALLY APPROVED BY VOTERS IN 2014. THE AMOUNT RAISED BY THE LEVY IN THE FIRST CALENDAR YEAR IS ESTMIATED AT $1,327,856.\n\nIn Kent County there are 31 local authorities that capture and use, for authorized purposes, tax increment revenues from property taxes levied by the County. Such capture could include a portion of this millage levy. The 31 taxincrement authorities in Kent County, capturing a portion of this tax levy, include but are not limited to the following:\n\nAda Township – Brownfield Redevelopment Authority\nBowne Township – Downtown Development Authority\nByron Township – Brownfield Redevelopment Authority\nCascade Charter Township – Downtown Development Authority\nCedar Springs, City of – Downtown Development Authority, Brownfield Redevelopment Authority\nGrand Rapids, City of – Downtown Development Authority, Monroe North-Tax\nIncrement Finance Authority, Smart Zone Local Development Finance\nAuthority, Corridor Improvement Finance Authority, Brownfield Redevelopment Authority\nGrand Rapids Township – Brownfield Redevelopment Authority\nGrandville, City of – Downtown Development Authority, Brownfield Redevelopment Authority\nKent City, Village of – Downtown Development Authority\nKentwood, City of – Brownfield Redevelopment Authority\nLowell, City of - Downtown Development Authority\nRockford, City of – Downtown Development Authority, Brownfield Redevelopment\nAuthority\nSparta, Village of – Downtown Development Authority, Brownfield Redevelopment\nAuthority\nWalker, City of – Downtown Development Authority, Brownfield Redevelopment\nAuthority\nWyoming, City of – Brownfield Redevelopment Authority", "reference_url": null, "election": { "id": 48, "name": "State Primary", "date": "2022-08-02", "date_humanized": "Tuesday, August 2nd", "active": false, "reference_url": null }, "district": { "url": "http://michiganelections.io/api/districts/56/", "id": 56, "category": "County", "name": "Kent" } }, { "url": "http://michiganelections.io/api/proposals/5385/", "id": 5385, "name": "Operating Millage Restoration Proposal Exempting Principal Residence and Other Property Exempt by Law", "description": "This millage will allow the school district to continue to levy the statutory rate of 18 mills against all property, except principal residence and other property exempted by law, required for the school district to receive its revenue per pupil foundation allowance and will only be levied to the extent necessary to restore millage lost as a result of the \"Headlee\" reduction.\n\nShall the limitation on the amount of taxes which may be assessed against all property, excluding principal residence and other property exempted by law, within Grand Rapids Public Schools, Kent County, Michigan, be increased by up to 5 mills ($5.00 per $1,000 of taxable valuation) for a period of seven (7) years, 2021 through 2027, inclusive, to provide funds for operating purposes and enable the school district to levy such part of the increase as is necessary to maintain a maximum tax levy of 18 mills ($18.00 per $1,000 of taxable valuation) (such new additional millage is estimated to provide revenues of approximately $250,000 in the first year of the levy, subject to tax capture described below, and will only be levied to the extent necessary to restore millage lost as a result of the \"Headlee\" reduction)? \n\nTo the extent required by law, a portion of this millage may be captured by and retained by the City of Grand Rapids Downtown Development Authority, the City of Grand Rapids Brownfield Authority, and the Grand Rapids SmartZone Local Development Finance Authority.", "reference_url": null, "election": { "id": 44, "name": "August Consolidated", "date": "2021-08-03", "date_humanized": "Tuesday, August 3rd", "active": false, "reference_url": null }, "district": { "url": "http://michiganelections.io/api/districts/8/", "id": 8, "category": "Jurisdiction", "name": "City of Grand Rapids" } }, { "url": "http://michiganelections.io/api/proposals/4694/", "id": 4694, "name": "Proposal 20-1", "description": "A proposed constitutional amendment to allow money from oil and gas mining on state-owned lands to continue to be collected in state funds for land protection and creation and maintenance of parks, nature areas, and public recreation facilities; and to describe how money in those state funds can be spent.\n\nThis proposed constitutional amendment would:\n\n• Allow the State Parks Endowment Fund to continue receiving money from sales of oil and gas from state-owned lands to improve, maintain and purchase land for State parks, and for Fund administration, until its balance reaches $800,000,000.\n\n• Require subsequent oil and gas revenue from state-owned lands to go into the Natural Resources Trust Fund.\n\n• Require at least 20% of Endowment Fund annual spending go toward State park improvement.\n\n• Require at least 25% of Trust Fund annual spending go toward parks and public recreation areas and at least 25% toward land conservation.\n\nShould this proposal be adopted?", "reference_url": "https://ballotpedia.org/Michigan_Proposal_1,_Use_of_State_and_Local_Park_Funds_Amendment_(2020)", "election": { "id": 41, "name": "State General", "date": "2020-11-03", "date_humanized": "Tuesday, November 3rd", "active": false, "reference_url": null }, "district": { "url": "http://michiganelections.io/api/districts/1427/", "id": 1427, "category": "State", "name": "Michigan" } }, { "url": "http://michiganelections.io/api/proposals/4695/", "id": 4695, "name": "Proposal 20-2", "description": "A proposed constitutional amendment to require a search warrant in order to access a person’s electronic data or electronic communications.\n\nThis proposed constitutional amendment would:\n\n• Prohibit unreasonable searches or seizures of a person’s electronic data and electronic communications.\n\n• Require a search warrant to access a person’s electronic data or electronic communications, under the same conditions currently required for the government to obtain a search warrant to search a person’s house or seize a person’s things.\n\nShould this proposal be adopted?", "reference_url": "https://ballotpedia.org/Michigan_Proposal_2,_Search_Warrant_for_Electronic_Data_Amendment_(2020)", "election": { "id": 41, "name": "State General", "date": "2020-11-03", "date_humanized": "Tuesday, November 3rd", "active": false, "reference_url": null }, "district": { "url": "http://michiganelections.io/api/districts/1427/", "id": 1427, "category": "State", "name": "Michigan" } }, { "url": "http://michiganelections.io/api/proposals/4781/", "id": 4781, "name": "II. Proposed Amendment to Title III (Registration-nominations-elections), Section 15 (who Nominated and Elected) of the Charter of the City of Grand Rapids, Concerning Elimination of the Provision Allowing Candidates to Be Elected to City Office by Winning A Certain Percentage of Votes at the August Primary Election.", "description": "A proposal to amend the Grand Rapids City Charter to eliminate the provision allowing candidates to be elected to City office by winning a certain percentage of the votes cast at the August primary election.\n\nShall this amendment be adopted?", "reference_url": null, "election": { "id": 41, "name": "State General", "date": "2020-11-03", "date_humanized": "Tuesday, November 3rd", "active": false, "reference_url": null }, "district": { "url": "http://michiganelections.io/api/districts/8/", "id": 8, "category": "Jurisdiction", "name": "City of Grand Rapids" } }, { "url": "http://michiganelections.io/api/proposals/4780/", "id": 4780, "name": "I. Proposed Amendment to Title III (Registration-nominations-elections), Section 6 (non-partisan Election) of the Charter of the City of Grand Rapids, Moving All City Elections From Odd Number Years to Even Number Years.", "description": "If passed this proposal would temporarily suspend term limits as provided in City Charter Title II, Section 9. Any Commissioner with a term set to expire in 2021 would have their term extended until the elections of 2022.\n\nA proposal to amend the Grand Rapids City Charter to require all City elections take place in even number years.\n\nShall this amendment be adopted?", "reference_url": null, "election": { "id": 41, "name": "State General", "date": "2020-11-03", "date_humanized": "Tuesday, November 3rd", "active": false, "reference_url": null }, "district": { "url": "http://michiganelections.io/api/districts/8/", "id": 8, "category": "Jurisdiction", "name": "City of Grand Rapids" } }, { "url": "http://michiganelections.io/api/proposals/1009/", "id": 1009, "name": "City of Grand Rapids: City of Grand Rapids Charter Amendment authorizing the levy of a permanent tax millage of 1.25 mills for PARKS, POOLS AND PLAYGROUNDS commencing January 1, 2021. The current levy of 0.98 mills expires in 2020.", "description": "It is proposed that Section 18(e)(4) be added to the City Charter authorizing the levy of 1.25 mills commencing January 1, 2021, to be used for City-owned parks, pools, and playgrounds which will raise an estimated $5,000,000 in the levy's first year.\nA portion of the revenues received would also be disbursed to:\nBrownfield Redevelopment Authority, Downtown Development Authority, SmartZone Local Development Finance Authority, Monroe North TIFA, Southtown CIA, Michigan Street CIA. Westside CIA, North Quarter CIA, South Division/Grandville Avenue and Uptown CIA .\nShall this amendment be adopted?", "reference_url": null, "election": { "id": 5, "name": "November Consolidated", "date": "2019-11-05", "date_humanized": "Tuesday, November 5th", "active": false, "reference_url": null }, "district": { "url": "http://michiganelections.io/api/districts/8/", "id": 8, "category": "Jurisdiction", "name": "City of Grand Rapids" } }, { "url": "http://michiganelections.io/api/proposals/191/", "id": 191, "name": "18-1", "description": "A proposed initiated law to authorize and legalize possession, use and cultivation of marijuana products by individuals who are at least 21 years of age and older, and commercial sales of marijuana through state-licensed retailers\n \n \nThis proposal would:\n· Allow individuals 21 and older to purchase, possess and use marijuana and marijuana-infused edibles, and grow up to 12 marijuana plants for personal consumption.\n· Impose a 10-ounce limit for marijuana kept at residences and require amounts over 2.5 ounces be secured in locked containers.\n· Create a state licensing system for marijuana businesses and allow municipalities to ban or restrict them.\n· Permit retail sales of marijuana and edibles subject to a 10% tax, dedicated to implementation costs, clinical trials, schools, roads, and municipalities where marijuana businesses are located.\n· Change several current violations from crimes to civil infractions.\nShould this proposal be adopted?", "reference_url": null, "election": { "id": 3, "name": "State General", "date": "2018-11-06", "date_humanized": "Tuesday, November 6th", "active": false, "reference_url": "https://www.michigan.gov/documents/sos/2018_Dates_600221_7.pdf" }, "district": { "url": "http://michiganelections.io/api/districts/1427/", "id": 1427, "category": "State", "name": "Michigan" } }, { "url": "http://michiganelections.io/api/proposals/192/", "id": 192, "name": "18-2", "description": "A proposed constitutional amendment to establish a commission of citizens with exclusive authority to adopt district boundaries for the Michigan Senate, Michigan House of Representatives and U.S. Congress, every 10 years\n \n \nThis proposed constitutional amendment would:\n· Create a commission of 13 registered voters randomly selected by the Secretary of State:\n - 4 each who self-identify as affiliated with the 2 major political parties; and\n - 5 who self-identify as unaffiliated with major political parties\n· Prohibit partisan officeholders and candidates, their employees, certain relatives, and lobbyists from serving as commissioners\n· Establish new redistricting criteria including geographically compact and contiguous districts of equal population, reflecting Michigan's diverse population and communities of interest. Districts shall not provide disproportionate advantage to political parties or candidates.\n· Require an appropriation of funds for commission operations and commissioner compensation.\nShould this proposal be adopted?", "reference_url": null, "election": { "id": 3, "name": "State General", "date": "2018-11-06", "date_humanized": "Tuesday, November 6th", "active": false, "reference_url": "https://www.michigan.gov/documents/sos/2018_Dates_600221_7.pdf" }, "district": { "url": "http://michiganelections.io/api/districts/1427/", "id": 1427, "category": "State", "name": "Michigan" } }, { "url": "http://michiganelections.io/api/proposals/193/", "id": 193, "name": "18-3", "description": "A proposal to authorize automatic and Election Day voter registration, no-reason absentee voting, and straight ticket voting; and add current legal requirements for military and overseas voting and post-election audits to the Michigan Constitution\nThis proposed constitutional amendment would allow a United States citizen who is qualified to vote in Michigan to:\n· Become automatically registered to vote when applying for, updating or renewing a driver's license or state-issued personal identification card, unless the person declines.\n· Simultaneously register to vote with proof of residency and obtain a ballot during the 2-week period prior to an election, up to and including Election Day.\n· Obtain an absent voter ballot without providing a reason.\n· Cast a straight-ticket vote for all candidates of a particular political party when voting in a partisan general election.\nShould this proposal be adopted?", "reference_url": null, "election": { "id": 3, "name": "State General", "date": "2018-11-06", "date_humanized": "Tuesday, November 6th", "active": false, "reference_url": "https://www.michigan.gov/documents/sos/2018_Dates_600221_7.pdf" }, "district": { "url": "http://michiganelections.io/api/districts/1427/", "id": 1427, "category": "State", "name": "Michigan" } }, { "url": "http://michiganelections.io/api/proposals/194/", "id": 194, "name": "Kent County Ready By Five Early Childhood Proposal", "description": "Shall Kent County levy .25 of one mill which is equal to 25 cents per $1,000 of the taxable value on all real and personal property subject to taxation for the period 2018 through 2024 inclusive for the purpose of providing planning, evaluating, and providing early childhood development services to persons up to age 5 and their parents? The amount raised by the levy in the first calendar year is estimated at $5,702,887\nIn Kent County there are local authorities that capture and use, for authorized purposes, tax increment revenues from property taxes levied by the County. Such capture would include a portion of the millage levy. The total amount of captured tax increment revenue from such millage in the first calendar year of the levy is an estimated $243,962. Tax increment authorities in Kent County include the following.\nAda Township—Brownfield Redevelopment AuthorityBowne Township - Alto Downtown Development AuthorityByron Township—Downtown Development Authority, Corridor Improvement AuthorityCascade Charter Township - Downtown Development AuthorityCedar Springs, City of - Downtown Development Authority, Local Development Finance AuthorityGrand Rapids, City of - Downtown Development Authority, Monroe North-Tax Increment Finance Authority, Smart Zone Local Development Finance Authority, Brownfield Redevelopment Finance Authority, Corridor Improvement AuthorityGrandville, City of - Downtown Development Authority, Brownfield Redevelopment AuthorityKent City, Village of - Downtown Development AuthorityKentwood, City of - Brownfield Redevelopment AuthorityLowell, City of - Downtown Development AuthorityRockford, City of - Downtown Development Authority, Brownfield Redevelopment AuthoritySparta, Village of - Downtown Development AuthorityWalker, City of - Downtown Development Authority, Brownfield Redevelopment AuthorityWyoming, City of - Downtown Development Authority, Local Development Finance Authority, Brownfield Redevelopment Authority", "reference_url": null, "election": { "id": 3, "name": "State General", "date": "2018-11-06", "date_humanized": "Tuesday, November 6th", "active": false, "reference_url": "https://www.michigan.gov/documents/sos/2018_Dates_600221_7.pdf" }, "district": { "url": "http://michiganelections.io/api/districts/56/", "id": 56, "category": "County", "name": "Kent" } } ] }