{"id":6000,"date":"2021-10-07T11:42:05","date_gmt":"2021-10-07T15:42:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/senatedems.com\/irwin\/?p=6000"},"modified":"2021-10-07T11:42:05","modified_gmt":"2021-10-07T15:42:05","slug":"irwin-denounces-long-lines-bills-restricting-freedom-to-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.senatedems.com\/irwin\/2021\/10\/07\/irwin-denounces-long-lines-bills-restricting-freedom-to-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"Irwin Denounces Long Lines, Bills Restricting Freedom to Vote"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>LANSING, Mich. (Oct. 7, 2021) \u2014 Sen.&nbsp;<strong>Jeff Irwin<\/strong>&nbsp;(D-Ann Arbor) today issued the following statement after the Republican-controlled Senate passed Senate Bills&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/legislature.mi.gov\/doc.aspx?2021-SB-0303\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">303<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/legislature.mi.gov\/doc.aspx?2021-SB-0304\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">304<\/a>, which create additional barriers to voting in Michigan:<br \/><br \/>\u201cWe already have voter ID laws in Michigan. Adding additional hurdles will make it more difficult for our seniors, disabled persons, students, immigrants, and anyone who doesn\u2019t drive to vote. And when you make it more difficult for them, you are making it more difficult for anyone living in urban areas with busy precincts. Because when someone who might not have an ID gets to the front of the line, there will be a disagreement about whether or not their vote will count, holding up everyone else in line. It means longer lines in communities like Ann Arbor, Ypsilanti, Detroit, Grand Rapids, and Flint. But, unfortunately, that is exactly what this legislation is designed to do. Make it harder to vote, make longer lines, and discourage people from voting.<br \/><br \/>\u201cWhat the legislature should be doing is focusing on guaranteeing equal access to the polls. When people in one community have to wait four hours to vote, and people in another can walk in and out in 10 minutes, that is not equal access. We should be fixing this, not making it worse.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">###<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LANSING, Mich. (Oct. 7, 2021) \u2014 Sen.&nbsp;Jeff Irwin&nbsp;(D-Ann Arbor) today issued the following statement after the Republican-controlled Senate passed Senate Bills&nbsp;303&nbsp;and&nbsp;304, which create additional barriers to voting in Michigan: \u201cWe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-statement"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.4 (Yoast SEO v26.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Irwin Denounces Long Lines, Bills Restricting Freedom to Vote - Senator Jeff Irwin<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/dev.senatedems.com\/irwin\/2021\/10\/07\/irwin-denounces-long-lines-bills-restricting-freedom-to-vote\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Irwin Denounces Long Lines, Bills Restricting Freedom to Vote\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"LANSING, Mich. 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