LANSING, Mich. — With in-person early voting complete and an Election Day tomorrow, nearly half of Michigan's active registered voters have already cast a ballot.
The Michigan Voting Dashboard shows a total of 3,196,038 ballots cast between early in-person voting and absentee voting. That is 43.9% of the 7,274,257 registered voters with an active status in Michigan.
Michiganders requested 2,329,387 absentee ballots statewide and have returned 1,981,594 absentee ballots ahead of Election Day. Voters will have until 8 p.m. on Election Day to return their absentee ballot to a drop box, polling location, or their local clerk's office.
This election is the first presidential election that allowed for early in-person voting and the turnout was expectedly historic, with 1,214,444 Michiganders heading to an early voting polling location and casting a ballot.
In Kent County, a little over 222,000 people cast ballots between early in-person voting and absentee voting. Ottawa County has had about 100,000 ballots cast and Muskegon County saw slightly less than 50,000 ballots cast ahead of Election Day.
You can see how other counties are fairing and other voting statistics at the Michigan Voting Dashboard.
