Make a plan to vote and help ensure registered voters in your community do the same by following these steps:
✔︎ Verify your voter information at Michigan.gov/Vote ⏤ Update your voter registration at your local clerk’s office leading up to and on Election Day. Here are two excellent resources to help in this process:
- The MI Secretary of State also offers a link to various voting resources and voter education materials, including flyers in Amharic, Arabic, Bengali, Chinese Mandarin, French, Korean, Russian, Somali, Spanish, and Vietnamese ⏤ all of which can be shared with family, friends, and neighbors: https://www. es/initiatives/voter-education.
- LWVUS has a one-stop shop website offering information on the election process. It’s virtual, nonpartisan and available in both English and Spanish: VOTE411. Geared to your mailing address, VOTE411.org provides personalized voting information: races and candidates on your ballot, proposals on your ballot, your voting location/polling precinct, and the closest drop box for absentee ballots. VOTE411.org will also tell you if you are a registered voter and provide up-to-date registration timelines for online, postmarked mail, and in-person voter registration. There’s even a checklist for first-time voters.
- ✔︎ Choose where to vote ⏤ At home or at your clerk’s office with an absentee ballot, or on Election Day
- at your polling place
- ✔︎ Vote! ⏤ If voting absentee, request and return your absentee ballot by 8 p.m. on Election Day (November 8, 2022). If voting in person, visit your polling place between 7 a.m. and 8 p.m.
For more information, visit Make a Plan to Vote.
With days remaining until Election Day, keep these dates in mind:
- Eligible citizens can register to vote and update their voter registration ⏤ In person at their local clerk’s office up until Election Day at 5 p.m.
- Absentee voting continues ⏤ Voters can also request an absentee ballot at their local clerk’s office through Monday, November 7, 2022, at 4 p.m.
- Election workers complete training ⏤ Local clerks will conduct training for individuals they have hired to serve as election inspectors.
- Clerks’ offices open the weekend before Election Day (November 8) ⏤ Most local clerks will hold special weekend office hours before the election for voters who need to update their registration, request an absentee ballot, or change their vote.
- Pre-processing begins two days before Election Day in eligible communities ⏤ Per a recent change to state law, election officials in jurisdictions with at least 10,000 residents can start preparing absentee ballots for tabulation on Election Day.