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Prop 2 supporters claim that it will make voting easier, save money, and ensure our city government is accountable to the citizens.
I understand the cost savings but it is going to make being an informed voter more difficult and voting itself more difficult.

Help me understand how making a longer more complex ballot makes voting easier. This November's ballot has 18 positions to vote for plus 7 proposals or amendments to research and vote on. Is there data that supports the idea that a long complex ballot is easier to use?

Isn't there a logical fallacy that changing the day that we vote for city council members will increase their accountability?

It seems like common sense to separate local elections from national elections. There is only so much time in a cycle that news outlets have to cover all the proposals and candidates on the ballot. There is only so much time people have to research and make informed choices.

There is a petition on change.org trying to get BOT members to resign. IMHO it is going to take a petition to our state reps for legislation to make BOT selection more local. Think of grade school and the song how a bill becomes a law from school house rock. It will have to start with a petition to change how the state education governing bodies selected. What we need is more local control by experts in education. (I suppose a few experts in sports since American culture insists that academic success is impossible without team sport or gladiators.). Whitmer is pushing for appointed boards which may not be any better. The university and its stake holder’s should be the ones to decide