Blog tagged as Elections

If the Senate maps drawn last year had been in place in 2018, the year Gov. Gretchen Whitmer won her first term by 9.56 percentage points, the Republicans still would have won 20 seats, presuming that every voter continued to vote for a Republican or Democratic candidate.

Ingham County Clerk Barb Byrum says she's projecting only one in 10 election officials will use Michigan's reformed law allowing them to begin preprocessing absentee ballots the Sunday and Monday before Election Day.

Common Lansing punditry since the Independent Citizens Redistricting Committee finished its work is that the new district boundaries make picking up a majority for the Democrats easier in the state Senate than in the state House.

Whatever happens, it's going to be close.

She may be a sitting member of Congress, but U.S. Rep. Elissa Slotkin (D) came into Thursday night's televised MI-7 debate against Republican Tom Barrett (R-Charlotte) with all the vigor of a challenger