About MI Right to Vote
Our Mission
MI Right to Vote was formed by veteran petition authors and circulators, with experience going back to the 1976 bottle deposit law. MI Right to Vote’s objective is to protect and preserve voting rights and voter’s rights to the initiative process. We are fortunate to be one of sixteen states that have the initiative and referendum. Such rights ensure that all political power is inherent to the people as set forth in Article I of Michigan’s 1963 Constitution. Our proposed Citizen Initiative Reform will eliminate loopholes and the use of dirty tricks which infringe on the full exercise of our rights of initiative.
Our Team
Jan BenDor is a co-founder and State Coordinator of the Michigan Election Reform Alliance. She is a retired election administrator, township Deputy Clerk and adjunct faculty at Eastern Michigan University; she currently serves on the board of the National Election Defense Coalition and is an adviser and instructor for the national voter education group, Scrutineers.
Fred Green was an active member on the policy committee of the campaign to end gerrymandering in Michigan from its inception and has been a licensed Michigan attorney in private practice for more than 40 years.
Dr. Robert A. Sedler was chairperson of the Michigan State Bar Constitutional Law Committee from 1981 to 1987. In 1994, he published a book on American Constitutional Law for the International Encyclopedia of Laws. In 2014 he received a State Bar of Michigan Champion of Justice Award. He has litigated a large number of civil rights cases as a volunteer lawyer for the ACLU. Dr. Sedler is a renowned constitutional law expert and a distinguished professor at Wayne State University Law School.