781,000 Absentee Ballots Returned in Michigan in 2024 Election so Far, Data Show

With 20 days to go before Election Day on Nov. 5, more than 781,000 ballots have been cast so far in Michigan, according to the top election agency in the battleground state. As of Wednesday, 781,534 absentee ballots have been returned across Michigan, according to a tracking tool from the Michigan Department of State. Notably, in Wayne County, which includes Detroit, about 343,000 people have voted absentee so far, representing about 84 percent of the mail ballots requested. Earlier data produced by the Department of State show that considerably more Michigan residents requested and returned mail-in ballots during the 2020 presidential election. The Michigan Department of State said on Tuesday in a news release that 2133,272 Michigan residents have requested a mail-in ballot. But for 2020, around 2,852,495 residents requested mail-in ballots and 977,694 had returned them with 21 days to go before the election during that year, it added....