An audit of the counting boards that counted absentee ballots cast by Detroit's voters found that 83% of the counting boards were balanced, up from 27% in the county canvass, Benson said.

In early December, the Michigan Bureau of Elections announced and commenced the first stages of the state’s postelection audits. According the Secretary of State's Office, these are the most ...

Ballots of voters who have died before Election Day are supposed to be rejected in Michigan, even if the voter cast an absentee ballot and then died before Election Day, according to the Secretary ...

While Michigan has not authorized any new election audit, the topic was brought up during an Anterim County commission meeting on May 6. Commissioner Dawn LaVanway motioned to conduct a forensic ...

The Michigan Secretary of State, alongside county and local election officials, began a statewide risk-limiting audit of the November 2020 general election Monday morning. The statewide risk ...

“By conducting the most comprehensive set of audits in our state’s history, the Bureau of Elections and Michigan’s more than 1,600 local election clerks are demonstrating the integrity of ...

Benson’s office said more than 1,300 Republican, Democrat and nonpartisan clerks, as well as the state Bureau of Elections, participated in at least one audit.

Lansing — The state of Michigan began Monday a two-week risk-limiting audit with a process that determined the more than 18,000 randomly drawn ballots to be reviewed from across the state.

The provision on early voting would change how voting is conducted in Michigan. Now, voters can go to election clerks’ offices before Election Day to ask for and submit absentee ballots, but the ...

LANSING, Mich. — With the Nov. 8 midterm election just two weeks away, more attention and ads have honed in on a ballot proposal that would update aspects of Michigan's elections processes. More ...

A once obscure Michigan elections panel is back in the spotlight after rejecting a ballot initiative seeking to enshrine abortion rights in the state's constitution and another to expand voting.