KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) – Early voting is proving to be very popular in Michigan.
Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson says nearly two-million ballots have been cast already either by absentee or early in-person voting.
As of yesterday morning, a total of 389,644 voters had cast a ballot at an early voting site, which includes more than 250,000 citizens during the first two days of statewide early voting. The highest turnout day so far was Saturday, October 26, with 145,176 ballots cast.
2024 is the first election year with a constitutionally required minimum of nine days of early in-person voting under Proposal 2, passed by Michigan’s voters in 2022.
A total of 2,360,407 voters have requested an absentee ballot for the General Election and 1,602,831 of them have voted and returned their absentee ballot by mail or to their ballot drop box, clerk’s office or early voting site.
There are four early in-person voting locations in Kalamazoo County.
Those are the Kalamazoo County Expo Center at 2900 Lake Street; the Portage Parks & Recreation Department at 320 Library Lane; the Fetzer Center on the Western Michigan University campus at 2251 Business Court; and the Douglass Community Association at 1000 West Paterson Street in Kalamazoo.
Only voters in Pavilion Township are not taking part as the clerk decided not to participate.
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