672K absentee ballots cast in Michigan three weeks out from Election Day

More than 670,000 Michigan voters have completed and returned their absentee ballots to clerks, with three weeks to go before the presidential election on Nov. 5.

Those 672,585 ballots make up about 31% of the 2.1 million absentee ballots that have so far been requested, according to data released by Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson's office Tuesday. The tally is about 12% of the total 5.5 million ballots cast in the 2020 election.

The return rate as of Tuesday is slightly lower than around this same time in 2020. Three weeks out from the 2020 election, about 34%, or nearly 1 million ballots, had been completed and returned of the 2.8 million requested. That year, Benson sent absentee ballot applications to each Michigan voter in an effort to promote remote voting options during the pandemic.

Voters can check the status of their absentee ballot application and the ballot itself at michigan.gov/vote.



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