Michigan Gov. Snyder Vetoes Some Controversial Election Bills

A report is here; the official message from the governor’s office is here.

Official proponents of some of the more controversial provisions of the bills had praised the package in a commentary running earlier this morning.

UPDATE: Follow-up from the NYT, NPR, CBS, Politico, Chicago Tribune, Detroit News, and the Detroit Free Press, each noting the governor’s crossing of partisan lines on, among other things, an expansion of voter ID.   Intriguingly, the only expansion of voter ID that I see in the vetoed bills is the provision of HB 5061 requiring photo ID or an affidavit before picking up an absentee ballot in person from a town clerk — the application of ID to absentee ballots (even those picked up in person) is the unusual bit.  And that provision wasn’t mentioned anywhere in the Governor’s veto message.

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