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Because her cerebral palsy impairs her ability to write, 68-year-old Marguerite Maddox planned on using the voter assist terminal (VAT) on Election Day. But when she arrived at her polling location, around 3:03 p.m., the device had not been prepared to accommodate her.

U.S. Rep. Elissa Slotkin (D-Holly) narrowly defeated former U.S. Rep. Mike Rogers in Michigan's U.S. Senate race, lining herself up to be Michigan's second-ever female U.S. senator and preventing Republicans from grabbing a seat they haven't touched in more than 20 years.

Former President Donald Trump won Michigan on Tuesday night for the second time in his political career after taking all but nine of the state's 83 counties, including the bellwether counties of Saginaw and Muskegon, which Trump lost in his lone Michigan defeat of 2020.

A combined 36 percent of Michiganders reported losing relationships with friends, family or both over their voting choices, according to a new MIRS-sponsored poll conducted by Mitchell Research and Communications.

Green Party presidential candidate Dr. Jill Stein pushed back on Wednesday on the Democratic National Committee for running digital ads that portray her and independent candidate Cornel West as “spoilers.”