Washtenaw: Citizenship

Voting applications printed by the Washtenaw County clerk will not include a question asking voters to affirm their U.S. citizenship on Nov. 6, following a decision by the Washtenaw County board of election commissioners. The Detroit News reports that clerks in Lansing and Macomb County are also resisting the citizenship question, which Secretary of State Ruth Johnson, a Republican, wants voting applications to include. From the article: ”Washtenaw County Clerk Larry Kestenbaum, a Democrat, had planned to order two different forms – one with the question and one without – and let election inspectors in the county’s five cities and 20 townships decide which one to use. But in a 2-1 vote, Kestenbaum was overruled Thursday by the other members of the county elections commission, and none of the forms will have the question.” Other election commissioners are county treasurer Catherine McClary and Donald Shelton, chief judge of the 22nd Circuit Court. [Source]