MEA Votes

Last minute plans taking you away from your polling place on Tuesday?

Whatever you do, don't miss out on your chance to vote in this critical election. You can still request an absentee ballot!

Many Michigan citizens have already voted by applying for and receiving an absentee ballot. Ballots were mailed earlier this month and have been returned to city and township clerks.

A new acquaintance Friday asked me how to vote absentee. Why? On Nov. 2, 2004, at about 8:30 p.m. after a long day at work, she realized that she’d forgotten to get by the polls to vote in the presidential election. Yikes!

She doesn’t want it to happen in this year’s don’t-miss election -- and neither do you. So who can vote absentee and how does it work?