COLDWATER, MI (WTVB) – Over 2,000 eligible Branch County voters have taken advantage of early in person voting since it got underway last Saturday.
There were 501 ballots cast on Tuesday which brings the four day total up 2,169.
This after there was an average of 50 voters a day for the August primary.
Early in person voting for all of the Branch County precincts is once again taking place at the Dearth Community Center in Coldwater through this Sunday from 8:00 a.m. until 4:00 p.m. daily.
Branch County voters can cast ballots at their own precincts on November 5.
As of yesterday morning, a total of 389,644 voters had cast a ballot at an early voting site, which includes more than 250,000 citizens during the first two days of statewide early voting. The highest turnout day so far was Saturday, October 26, with 145,176 ballots cast.
2024 is the first election year with a constitutionally required minimum of nine days of early in-person voting under Proposal 2, passed by Michigan’s voters in 2022.
A total of 2,360,407 voters have requested an absentee ballot for the General Election and 1,602,831 of them have voted and returned their absentee ballot by mail or to their ballot drop box, clerk’s office or early voting site.
(Michael Arney contributed to this report)
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