With just under four weeks until Michigan’s Primary Election Day, over 1.5 million of the state’s voters have requested an absentee ballot and more than 178,000 voters have already submitted a completed ballot – breaking the previous records set in 2020 at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.
As of July 9, a total of 1,518,665 Michigan citizens have requested an absentee ballot or received a ballot after joining the permanent absentee ballot list. That’s 157,833 more than had requested an absentee ballot at the same point prior to the 2020 August Primary.
So far this summer, 178,931 voters have completed their absentee ballot for the Primary Election and returned it to be counted – 67,917 more than at the same point in 2020. A breakdown by jurisdiction is available online.
