Michigan ranked choice voting group ends effort to put amendment on 2026 ballot
A group seeking to bring ranked choice voting to Michigan is ending its effort to place a constitutional amendment on the ballot for the 2026 election, but organizers say they may try again for 2028.
In a Monday evening email to volunteers, Rank MI Vote’s statewide field co-directors Kate De Jong and Kate Grabowsky said the group is “pausing signature gathering efforts, but we aren’t pausing the campaign to bring ranked choice voting to Michigan.”
Organizers needed to collect 446,198 valid voter signatures in a 180-day window to make the 2026 general election ballot, but it appears they were falling short. Earlier this month, WLNS News reported the group was more than 200,000 signatures short of their goal.
“We can’t depend on a triggering event that would super-charge our petition drive,” De Jong and Grabowsky wrote in the email to campaign volunteers.
https://www.votebeat.org/michigan/2025/12/18/ranked-choice-voting-constitutional-amendment-stops-signature-collection-2026/