KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) – According to a new voting information dashboard from the Michigan Secretary of State’s office, absentee voting appears to be very popular in Kalamazoo County.
The website shows just over a third of the county’s 176,312 registered voters have requested an absentee ballot. As of earlier this week, 21,518 of those ballots have been returned locally.
While the City of Portage tops the list with more than 13,000 absentee ballots submitted, absentee voting rates have also been the in the county’s least populated areas. In Ross Township, 14.8% of registered voters have cast ballots, with 14.4% in Charleston Township and 14.2% in Alamo Township.
Just 3.4% of active voters have cast an absentee ballot so far in Wakeshma Township.
Almost 800,000 ballots have been cast statewide so far, according to the dashboard. Absentee ballots for the November 5 general election began being mailed September 26. As of Tuesday, more than 2.1 million voters had requested absentee ballots. That’s a bit of a decline from the same time in 2020 when the COVID-19 pandemic prompted election officials to send absentee ballot applications to every voter in the state.
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