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This item received some publicity yesterday. From her own web site:
"Secretary of State Candice S. Miller today unveiled the Michigan Secretary of State Publius Voter Information Center, an online source providing Michigan residents with all the information they need to cast their ballots. . . The Voter Information Center is found on the department’s web site at www.michigan.gov/sos."
That is the main page for the Secretary of State, not for the VIC. There is a purported link to the VIC on that page, but it brings up no more than a brief introductory paragraph and then another link, this time to http://65.42.172.210. Thus, no one will be able to access the site by entering a direct URL. A series of two links must be found and navigated from the main SOS site before the VIC site is displayed.
The main page at the VIC asks for the user to enter his name to provide information on such things as polling location, type of ballot, and voting instructions. This will immediately turn away some users, who are justifiably leery of any web site which asks for a name.
If a name is entered and is in the SOS database of registered voters, it will provide some information, including a copy of "your ballot". Only the partisan ballot and the proposals are reproduced, however. The non-partisan ballot, including races for Supreme Court, Court of Appeals, and local judicial races, is nowhere to be seen.
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