Hayley Harding

I want to talk elections and voting in Michigan — questions, comments, concerns, court docs, leaks, Weird Stuff — with you for @VotebeatUS. Reach me: 📧: hharding@votebeat.org ☎️: 313-437-2115 (call or text — this is how to get me on my cell) DMs are also open!

ummmmmm starting to think no one cares my birthday is coming up

@krystalrnurse Does this happen to you often

@Hayley__Harding another bonus is that if im forced to go to canada bc drivers are assholes, IT WONT COST ME $20

GIRLS WE'RE GOING TO CANADA FOR CHEAP

(yes I do in Canada the same thing I do in the U.S.)

there has been multiple occasions where going to Windsor sounded nice but I didn't want to spend $20 just to GO...........those Canadian bookstores with their beautiful European covers are about to be TIRED OF ME

Here at Votebeat, we write about punching bags, cookies, fluoride, and lanterns. Needless to say, we're a voting publication

A punching bag with a mayoral candidate's face on it. More than three dozen disenfranchised voters. A razor-thin election victory. Here's the fullest reporting we have so far on what the hell happened in Hamtramck. votebeat.org/michigan/2026/…

For @VotebeatUS: Michigan's so called "fake electors" won't face trial after Nessel declined to appeal. In a 110-page report explaining why, she said it was "unjust" to prosecute "low-level" participants in an effort she said was led by the president. votebeat.org/michigan/2026/…

@LilyCGuiney @samueljrob believe you me I will never forget how to spell hermeneutic !

@samueljrob absolutely dying over the live tweet of @Hayley__Harding’s spelling bee performance

The brand new Helen Moore Community Center is hosting Nneka Ezeanya’s 313 Spelling Bee tonight. The event is doubling as a book drive for national reading month. The books donated tn are heading to Jerjuan Howard’s new bookstore on Puritan.

@samueljrob THIS IS SO FUNNY

@Hayley__Harding Fourth word, “Hermeneutic” So close! Just one letter off. Good effort, Hayley!

! Boise Idaho mentioned ! votebeat.org/michigan/2026/…

@KaseyHelton05 @MIRSnews I'm also not sure what machine this is supposed to represent? I've voted in many states over my lifetime and there's never been a giant red button

@Hayley__Harding @MIRSnews “VOLET” Here

Bummer to see @MIRSnews use generative AI for this absolutely baffling image on an otherwise interesting story!

Are they going to animate the fist fights

@MIRSnews When outlets I otherwise really like and trust use AI for something as simple as ... a generic image of voting (or volet, I guess) ... it makes me wonder where else corners are being cut, even if I have no reason to think they might be!

Republican SOS candidate Articia Bomer tells me she's dropping out of the race and will instead be endorsing Anthony Forlini

That case is currently at the MI Court of Appeals and the ballots in question can't be touched, Brater says. More on that here: votebeat.org/michigan/2025/…

BSC Chair Richard Houskamp promises Wayne Co. Canvassers chair Lisa Capatina that the Hamtramck 37 will be given time on an upcoming agenda when an investigation is no longer ongoing.

Their companies are also banned from gathering signatures. More on their convictions here: votebeat.org/michigan/2026/…

The Michigan Board of State Canvassers have exercised their authority to ban canvassers from circulating signatures again for the next four years against Shawn Wilmoth and Willie Reed, the two men found guilty of felonies related to signature fraud earlier this month