LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) — The countdown clock is ticking right down to November 5, 2024 and election day. Proper now, we’re 23 days out from the polls opening.
However, voters in Michigan have been receiving and returning absentee ballots. The votes solid in these ballots may be counted by any voting jurisdiction — township or metropolis — in Michigan on election day. However jurisdictions with a inhabitants of greater than 5000 can started pre-processing the ballots as much as 8 days earlier than the election. The outcomes, nonetheless, will not be recognized till after the polls shut on election day.
Monitoring what number of absentee ballots have been requested and despatched out and what number of of them have been returned has develop into a reasonably easy course of with computerization. And Ingham County Clerk Barb Byrum has taken to X, the social media platform previously often called Twitter, to share every day updates on returned ballots to native jurisdictions.
Ingham County Clerk Barb Byrum/File
How are Ingham County absentee poll voters doing in returning the ballots? Listed below are screenshots from Byrum’s X account from October 6 to October 12.
Screenshot of X put up by Ingham County Clerk Barb Byrum detailing absentee poll returns by voting jurisdiction on Oct. 6. (WLNS)
Screenshot of Ingham County Clerk Barb Byrum’s X put up detailing absentee poll returns by jurisdiction as of Oct. 7. (WLNS)
Screenshot of Ingham County Clerk Barb Byrum’s X put up detailing absentee poll returns by jurisdiction as of Oct. 8. (WLNS)
Screenshot of Ingham County Clerk Barb Byrum’s X put up detailing absentee poll returns by jurisdiction as of Oct. 9. (WLNS)
Screenshot of Ingham County Clerk Barb Byrum’s X put up detailing absentee poll returns by jurisdiction as of Oct. 10. (WLNS)
Screenshot of Ingham County Clerk Barb Byrum’s X put up updating on the general variety of absentee ballots returned within the county as of October 11, 2024, shut of enterprise. (WLNS)
