3 Days Until Election 2024: Last Weekend of Early Voting in Michigan

MLive is counting down the days until the November 2024 elections. Here’s what you need to know today.

Millions of Michigan voters have already cast ballots ahead of the Nov. 5 presidential election, as the state enters the final weekend of early voting.

With 1.8 million returned ballots and nearly 737,000 people voting in person at early voting centers on Oct. 31, that equated to nearly 36% turnout so far among the state’s actively registered voters, according to the secretary of state’s report of Foreign Affairs. online voting dashboard.

Early voting centers in communities across the state are now open for two more days: Saturday, November 2 and Sunday, November 3.

Find out where you can vote early.

As voters make their choices, presidential candidates continue to campaign in Michigan. Republican Donald Trump attended Macomb Community College on Friday where he called himself the “candidate of peace” and promised to end the “migrant invasion” of America and launch the “largest deportation program in American history” and “ban all sanctuary cities.”

Democrat Kamala Harris, who told a crowd in Ann Arbor earlier this week that fear and division have characterized American politics for a decade because of Trump, is now will share her message Sunday at Michigan State University.

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For more information about the general election, visit MLive’s preview page for the 2024 general election.

Readers can also read all about the elections – and other political issues – at MLive’s Politics & Elections page.

MLive has centralized election-related stories in regions around the media group’s eight newsroom centers in the state. To view these stories, click on the hyperlinks related to the communities below:

EXPLORING CANDIDATES AND ISSUES

Created through a partnership between MLive Media Group and the League of Women Voters of Michigan Education Fund, a voter guide with candidate information and other voting resources ahead of Michigan’s November 5 general election is now live at the following link: Vote411.org/Michigan.

For more information about the 2024 election, readers can visit the Michigan Secretary of State’s Voter Information Center online at mvic.sos.state.mi.us.

WHEN DOES VOTING START?

Election day is Tuesday, November 5.

Absentee voting has begun.

And in some communities, early in-person voting opportunities began as early as Monday, October 7. Other communities plan to begin early in-person voting later in the election cycle. Contact your local clerk to find out when early in-person voting can start in your community.

The early voting period lasts at least nine consecutive days and ends on the Sunday before the election. Communities may decide to offer additional days of early voting, up to a total of 29 days.