Update: The Michigan Supreme Court ruled on August 3, 2012 that the ballot proposal to repeal the EFM law is valid and must appear on the ballot.

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"A group seeking repeal of the state’s emergency manager law submitted this afternoon what they said were 226,000 petition signatures to force a referendum on the issue in November.

If a state elections panel verifies that 161,305 of the signatures are those of registered voters, the controversial statute enacted last year would be suspended until the vote...."

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