"Michigan Democrats Secure House Majority in Special Elections"

Special elections in Michigan flipped control of the lower house back to Democrats, potentially allowing them to pass legislation protecting voting rights and election administration. Efforts to codify voter protections stalled after Democrats lost their majority last November, but with the election of Mai Xiong and Peter Herzberg, legislators could renew those efforts. Michigan voters passed a constitutional amendment enacting election reforms, and the Democratic-controlled state legislature passed legislation to enact the amendment. Measures to protect voting rights and ban prison gerrymandering have been introduced, and a set of bills banning guns at polling places has cleared the state senate.