Reduce Fees - Driving is a necessity. As a state we should be doing more to make sure we can train and license as many people as possible to drive. Removing the high cost of getting a license is just one way we can train more people to be safe drivers. Godfrey Dillard is your consumer advocate dedicated to finding ways to reduce the costs and fees for all licensing from boats to motorcycles as well as the yearly requirement for vehicle registrations.

Protect Privacy - People are not products or inventory in a grocery store. How much information is stored in your bar-code, who is your personal information being shared with and what happens to your information every time someone swipes your license through a machine? Godfrey Dillard is committed to protecting your private information and making oversite of your privacy a number one priority. Time to pull back the veil of secrecy covering the use of our private, bar-coded information.

No More Long Lines - Godfrey Dillard will make it easier to keep your license and tabs up to date by increasing the number of clerks as well as advocating for multiple year tabs and registration so you don't have to pay every year for the rest of your life just to have a license plate. We can do better than that. You deserve more on your birthday.^[6]

Ruth Johnson has always been a fighter. Since she was elected in 2010, she’s fought to change the way government works for you – to protect your vote, to improve customer service and to make government more accountable to the people it serves:

Customer Service – Better. Faster. More Convenient.

• Launched ExpressSOS.com, tripling online services. To date, the “online, no-wait Secretary of State” has handled more than three million transactions.
• Shortened lines in the branch office system, despite staff levels 25 percent below what they were a decade ago.
• Reduced the department’s general fund budget by 20 percent.
• Put two self-serve stations in retail stores – a Michigan first – as part of a pilot program.
• Customers can now get their milk, bread, eggs and license plate tabs in a single trip.

Election Integrity – Ruth fought for – and won – the most comprehensive election reform in recent history:

• Tough new requirements for campaign contribution reporting so voters can “follow the money,” making elections more transparent and our elected officials more accountable.
• The first-ever election audits and online training for Michigan’s 30,000 poll workers.
• A new U.S. citizenship affirmation on ballot applications.
• Put technology to work by expanding electronic poll books and launching smartphone apps so voters can more easily access critical election information.
• Ensuring Election Integrity by removing those who have died, moved and who are not U.S. Citizens from the voter rolls.

Caring for veterans and Michigan families

• Co-founded OPERATION: OUR TROOPS COUNT, which fights to protect the vote of our overseas military members and assist Michigan’s 680,000 veterans in getting the benefits they have earned and deserve.
• Launching a special driver’s license for veterans and working to put information about veterans’ benefits in branch offices.
• Partnered on legislation to create the first fundraising license plate to directly benefit Michigan veterans.
• Brought a record-setting ONE MILLION new donors to Michigan’s Organ Donor Registry by changing old thinking and coming up with creative, no-cost ways to promote organ donor signups.

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