Nearly a Third of Voters Statewide Have Already Cast Primary Ballots

LANSING, MI (WHTC-AM/FM, July 30, 2024) – Voters are hitting the polls early in Michigan.

With one week left to go before Election Day, officials say more than 709-thousand voters have cast a ballot in the Primary. That vast majority of those voters have submitted an absentee ballot, but according to the Secretary of State’s office, more than 10 thousand went to an early voting site to submit their vote in person. If trends from the past are any indication, when 2.2 million Michiganders voted in the presidential election August primary in 2016 and 2020, about a third of the state electorate have already submitted votes before August 6th.

A snafu occurred on Saturday that prevented some local clerks from connecting to an early voting e-poll book, according to Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson.

Early voting numbers in the four centralized Ottawa County centers through the first three days stood at 632; no such data was made available from Allegan County, which is having communities hold their own early voting separately or in collaborative efforts with neighboring municipalities.