Vote by mail/absentee ballots are much easier to use than learning the polling location has been moved.
By Neal Rubin
Stan Edwards (click here) thought hard about not running a polling place this year. A lot of other people did more than think.
They didn't show up, assuring that what promised to be the most peculiar election in memory was every bit as odd as expected — and a bit stranger still for some Detroiters who didn't find out until Monday that their poll locations had moved.
Realistically, oddness was almost running unopposed. Amid a pandemic that prompted a relative trickle of people earning "I Voted" stickers but a record 1.53 million returned absentee ballots as of Tuesday morning, Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson has predicted that results might not be available until Thursday....
Same election, different journalist. It looks like mail-in/absentee ballots are trending as the best method to vote. Americans love the odd and a challenge besides. There won't be any problem in November that can't easily be overcome.
August 4, 2020
By Beth LaBlanc
Polls have now closed (click here) for all of Michigan on the most unusual election in recent history.
Coronavirus precautions added to the usual election day issues at polling places. But the most notable difference was the amount of voters turning to absentee ballots.
Just before the close of polls Tuesday, clerks across the state had received nearly 1.6 million absentee ballots back after issuing more than 2 million, representing a roughly 77% return rate statewide....
