House Passes Bills To Eliminate February Elections

The Michigan House has a passed a series of bills to eliminate February elections in the state.

The reasoning, according to State Representative Dan Lauwers, is that February elections have low voter turnout and it just doesn’t make sense financially to continue holding them.

In fact, the Brockway Republican says more people turn out to vote on millage proposals in August and November elections than they do in February and March.

But State Representative Jon Hoadley, a Kalamazoo Democrat, doesn’t see it like that. He says lawmakers should be finding more ways to encourage people to vote, not take away an opportunity to go to the polls.

Currently, there are only four days a year elections are allowed to be held in the state, one of which is the fourth Tuesday in February.

The bill passed by an overwhelming margin and heads to the Senate.