It doesn't just create a fresh bureaucracy, it enshrines it in the Constitution

The liberal extremist backers of the RMGN ballot initiative would have you believe their petition decreases the size of government.  Especially interesting considering the fact that portions of the fine print actually expand the size of government.  And it plays partisan games while it's at it.  The language divides in two the responsibilities of the Department of State and creates a brand new bureaucracy along with its subsequent high-dollar, tax-payer funded management team.

Currently the Department of State oversees the Bureau of Elections.  While the Secretary of State is itself a partisan position there is perhaps no department anywhere in Lansing that receives more consistent plaudits than the team at BoE.  They are truly non-partisan and do one heck of a job.  More than that, conventional wisdom holds that most of the folks overseeing operations at BoE are actually Democrats but they are high quality folks with boat loads of integrity doing the tasks prescribed to them by law.  

No longer, under this MDP end-run on the constitution.

One finds on Page 2, Article II, Section 7, Paragraph 2, Line 1 of the petition the official constitutional enshrinement of a new autonomous state department.  Page 2, Article II, Section 7, Paragraph 2, Line 11 establishes the constitutional requirement for the appropriation of taxpayer funds specifically for this new department.  The bureaucrats staffing the new department?  Established by executive order of the Governor of the State of Michigan and then appointed by the Civil Service Commission.

The petition literally uproots one of the most respected, non-partisan offices anywhere in state government, develops in it a new bureaucracy and gives the broader bureaucracy itself the keys to the new tricked-out electioneering car.

Bigger, more partisan government, thy name is RMGN.