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      <title>Campaign to amend MI Constitution, require citizenship proof to register to vote, submits signatures</title>
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      <description>Signatures are in to propose a Michigan constitutional amendment requiring proof of citizenship to register to vote. Voter fraud is a felony, and extremely rare in the current system.</description>
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      <title>Michigan voters to decide if it’s time for a constitutional convention</title>
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      <description>By law, the issue must appear on the ballot every 16 years. The last updated constitution was approved in 1962.</description>
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      <description>A voting rights coalition has launched a campaign to put a constitutional amendment on the November ballot.</description>
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      <description>A commission has recommended salary increases of 2 percent a year for the governor, legislators and other state elected officials.The State Officers…</description>
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