Absentee ballot preprocessing passes Michigan legislature for November, future elections

On the last day before leaving Lansing to focus on running for reelection, Michigan lawmakers struck a deal to let clerks start processing absentee ballots two days early to control an expected deluge of mailed ballots. More than half of the 2.1 million voters in August’s primary election cast ballots by mail, and high turnout is predicted for November. But before Wednesday night, those absentee ballots – even if received weeks in advance – had to sit idle before polls opened on Election Day. Ben Orner, Jordyn Hermani and Alyssa Burr, MILive.

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