Barrow v. City of Detroit Election Commission

These consolidated appeals relate to the primary and general elections held in the city of Detroit in August and November of 2013. Plaintiffs are citizens, mayoral and city clerk candidates, and an activist committee who brought legal challenges to both elections. Defendants are Detroit’s current mayor, Michael Duggan, its election commission and city clerk, and Duggan’s campaign committee. Plaintiffs moved for declaratory judgments, injunctive relief, and writs of *654mandamus in an effort to derail Duggan’s write-in campaign, the circulation of allegedly imperfect absentee ballots, and the…