KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) – It’s Election Day
News organizations will be doing their tracking and making their projections this evening, but the final count won’t be in for sometime, and that’s true of local results as well.
Election reform may have made casting ballots easier for Michigan voters, but it is tougher for clerks, who now must process ballots from election day, early voting and absentee ballots as well. .
City of Kalamazoo Clerk Scott Borling says they are now allowed to begin processing absentee ballots early, but no counting can begin until 8 p.m., when polls close.
Borling says there is a lot of verification and paperwork that must take place under the law, and it takes time.
He says they will still be processing new absentee ballots even after polls close because some people wait until the very last to use a drop box.
Kalamazoo County Clerk Meredith Place calls this the Super Bowl of elections because there are more voters, more ballot items and bigger results than any other election they conduct.
Polls open at 7 a.m. and will remain open until 8 p.m. Anyone waiting in line at that time will get to vote. That, too, could delay results.
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