LANSING, MI (WKZO AM/FM) – Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson says with just under four weeks until Michigan’s Primary Election Day, over 1.5 million of the state’s voters have requested an absentee ballot and more than 178,000 voters have already submitted a completed ballot . Those numbers break the previous records set in 2020 at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.
As of July 9, a total of 1,518,665 Michigan citizens requested an absentee ballot or received a ballot after joining the permanent absentee ballot list. That’s 157,833 more than had requested an absentee ballot at the same point prior to the 2020 August Primary.
So far this summer, 178,931 voters have completed their absentee ballot for the Primary Election and returned it to be counted, 67,917 more than at the same point in 2020.
Eligible Michigan citizens can register to vote online or by mail until Monday, July 22, or in person at their local clerk’s office with proof of residency by 8:00 p.m. on Election Day.
To cast a ballot in person, voters can go to an early voting site in their jurisdiction from July 27 to August 4 or to their polling place on Election Day from 7:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.
Michigan does not register voters by party, but state law requires voters to cast votes for only one party’s candidates in the Primary Election. Votes for candidates in multiple parties on the same ballot will not be counted.
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