EXCLUSIVE: Lawsuit Seeks to Force Whitmer to Call Special Election for Open Michigan Senate Seat

Residents say governor’s months-long delay violates their constitutional right to representation in the 35th District.

LANSING, Mich. — A group of mid-Michigan voters is taking Gov. Gretchen Whitmer to court, saying her refusal to call a special election for a vacant state Senate seat has left more than a quarter-million people without a voice in Lansing.

The lawsuit, which is expected to be filed in the Michigan Court of Claims on Monday, August 11. comes more than 200 …