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Sixteen state House candidates have been referred to the Attorney General’s Office for not turning in their pre-primary campaign finance reports on time or not at all.

Nearly 127,000 teens between the ages of 16 to 17-½ are eligible to preregister to vote, and on Tuesday the Secretary of State asked the Board of Education to help get those kids engaged.

Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson reported that statewide voter turnout was down 25 percent in the 2024 August primary from 2020, but Ottawa County saw a 10 percent increase.

Thirty-eight percent of Americans who are not voting for Harris cite her gender as playing a role in their decision, according to a recent survey. The data also reported that 1 in 6 of respondents do not think that a woman is capable of the role of President.

During the third stop of the Harris-Walz Battleground States Tour, Democratic Presidential Nominee Kamala Harris was interrupted by pro-Palestine protestors chanting that they “won’t vote for genocide.”