![]() Kristi Tanner Absentee vote count on track in Detroitĭetroit election workers have counted roughly 55,000 absentee ballots at Huntington Place, the downtown waterfront convention center formerly called TCF Center and Cobo Hall, said Daniel Baxter, chief operating officer over the Absentee Voting and Special Projects Division at the Detroit Department of Elections. Michigan voters approved same-day voter registration and no-reason absentee voting along with other changes to Michigan’s election laws in 2018. Tuesday's statistic includes college towns like Ann Arbor and East Lansing, where clerks reported 802 and 747 same-day registrations, respectively. would be permitted to vote, the Michigan Secretary of State’s Office said. Dozens, meanwhile, continued to wait inside Michigan State University’s Brody Hall at 10 p.m., video posted to Twitter by the Lansing State Journal showed.Īnyone in line by 8 p.m. Democrat volunteers urged them to stay, providing hand warmers and free pizza. Students draped themselves in blankets to weather the line outside University of Michigan’s central campus with temperatures in the low 40s. Hundreds of people were still waiting to register and vote in East Lansing and Ann Arbor as of 9 p.m., Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson said, after lines as long as three hours were reported at college campus sites as polls closed. ![]() Long lines on campus stretch past poll closure
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