(The Center Square) – Nearly half of active registered Michigan voters have already cast a ballot in the 2024 General Election, with more than 2.1 million absentee ballots returned and 1.2 ballots cast during early voting as of Monday night.
“All the trends we are seeing indicate we are on pace to see another high turnout election with voters all across the state enthusiastic and engaged,” Secretary of State Joceyln Benson said. “I want to thank Michigan’s clerks and election workers–all of whom have done an exceptional job managing the early voting sites, setting up counting boards to preprocess mail-in ballots, and making sure the voting process runs smoothly and securely.”
The vote total so far is made up of roughly 55% women and 45% men, according to data from Michigan’s Bureau of Elections. Michigan voters over the age of 60 represent slightly more than half of the combined absentee and early ballots cast, while younger voters aged 18-30 represent less than 20%.
The U.S. The Department of Justice has deployed staff from its Civil Rights Division at 86 jurisdictions across the country – six of which are in Michigan – to ensure poll compliance with federal voting rights laws. DOJ personnel will be available on Election Day at some polling locations in the cities of Ann Arbor, Detroit, Flint, Grand Rapids, Hamtramck, and Warren to field questions and complaints from the public about possible voting rights violations.
Michigan’s total voter turnout for the 2020 election was about 5.6 million total voters.
