This sucks.
I was hoping to take half a day off of work tomorrow (Tuesday) to do some Spokesrider research at the state archives in Lansing. I voted by absentee ballot today so I could be gone all day tomorrow.
So tonight I sat down to plan my strategy for tomorrow, only to find that the entire Michigan Library and Historical Center is closed for election day.
Not only is that personally inconvenient to me, but it’s highly improper for a state agency to do something like that on election day. It’s basically a taxpayer-funded contribution to the Democrat campaign. The people who work for state agencies have a huge conflict of interest in getting involved in elections. Now we have not only taken away the Hatch Act protections for the occasional dissident who may work in the public sector, but we’re giving one political ideology free, tax-paid campaign contributions in the form of campaign-worker time. Those contributions are not available to the opposition.