GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — County clerks say early voting, in effect across Michigan for the first time this year, can look very different from county to county.
Since a ballot proposal enumerating a number of election reforms was passed in 2022, Michigan residents have the ability to vote for at least 10 days total — a minimum of nine days in advance, and then on Election Day.
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“This is new,” Kent County Clerk Lisa Posthumus Lyons said. “…Each jurisdiction will implement early voting, and it is at least nine days and up to 29 days.”
In Kent County, Posthumus Lyons says there will be nine days of early voting.
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“In Kent County, you can go and cast your ballot in person, feed it through the tabulator nine days early,” she said. “We’re doing things in Kent County where each voter will go to their jurisdiction’s early voting site. So each jurisdiction in Kent County is going to operate and run their own early voting site.”