Primary ballots due Tuesday by 8 p.m.
LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) — Tuesday is the Presidential Primary election in Michigan — and new laws have made ballot access easier.
Voters can be signed up to automatically receive an absentee ballot and clerks are required to provide early voting locations for nine days prior to the election.
Ingham County Clerk Barb Byrum says, via a news release, “47,396 people have joined that list in Ingham County, which accounts for 22.33 percent of the voting population in the County.”
“Voters in Michigan have more options for how to vote than ever before and they are already taking advantage of these new methods,” says Byrum in the release. “With one day to go, nearly 75 percent of absentee ballots issued in Ingham County have already been returned. That is exactly in line with what we saw in 2020.”
She reports nearly 2000 residents in the county availed themselves of the early voting option. Early voting polls closed Sunday.
Those voters still holding their absentee ballots can return them to their local clerk, a ballot drop box or submit them to their polling location. Which ever option a voter takes has to be completed by 8 p.m. Tuesday when polls close.
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