Former gubernatorial candidate Mike Duggan advised residents against putting him down as a write-in candidate, saying, "People ought not to waste their vote voting for me." He also doesn't feel like he needs to make any endorsements ahead of Nov. 3.

U.S. Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-Dearborn) and three state Democratic lawmakers warned that rhetoric from Washington and plans to send Justice Department election watchers are fueling fears among Michigan voters about whether their ballots will count or be challenged Nov. 3.

Michigan’s U.S. Senate race remains narrowly divided, with Democrat Abdul El-Sayed holding a two-point edge over Republican Mike Rogers in new InsiderAdvantage polling that also shows close contests in Alaska and Kansas.

With 25 days until Election Day, the number of House races the caucuses are playing in is shrinking, not expanding.

The Michigan Victory Fund (MVF), the political action committee for the Republican Governors Association (RGA), has significantly scaled back its media spending on John James (R-Shelby Township), a notable development that is leaving the Republican nominee with no substantial paid media presence four weeks before the general election.

Michigan voters have returned 30% more absentee ballots than at the same point before the 2022 general election, although Practical Political Data’s Mark Grebner cautioned that automatic ballot mailings help explain the increase.

Republican Secretary of State nominee Anthony Forlini says college students should vote in their hometowns, but his party’s youth chair encourages them to register near campus when doing so could help Republicans win.

Putting money on an election could change more than a trader’s bank balance. It could influence whether someone votes, whom they support and how they react when their candidate loses, according to researchers watching the growth of election prediction markets.

This week, MIRS Editor Kyle Melinn received in the mail at his Lansing address a campaign flier for Mike Bouchard, who is running for a congressional district 100 miles away in Macomb County.

Republican Secretary of State nominee Anthony Forlini today said third-party groups collecting and transporting voter registration forms open up folks' private details to harvesters with bad intentions. The drives also produced repeat applications from already-registered voters, he said, adding to clerks’ workload.

Michigan voters overwhelmingly trust elections conducted in their own communities, but that confidence falls sharply when they are asked about elections elsewhere in the state, according to new polling that found a significant partisan divide over election integrity.

Black voters across Michigan, Ohio and Wisconsin differ sharply by age and gender in how they view the Democratic Party, what issues they prioritize and what they want from candidates, according to new polling that researchers say should caution campaigns against treating the “Black vote” as a single political bloc.

The Libertarian Party of Michigan's nominee for lieutenant governor was arraigned Thursday on a felony larceny charge, adding another complication to an election cycle in which one longtime party official says Michigan Libertarians have struggled with shrinking participation, ideological extremes and candidates who don't reflect traditional libertarian principles.

Michigan's August primary electorate may be getting steadily grayer, but 2026 brought a noticeable exception: Voters under 40 showed up in their largest share in nearly three decades.

Vice President JD Vance said during a Macomb County campaign event today that there was "something about Abdul El-Sayed that is very, very evil," in addition to the event touting federal efforts to prevent non-English speakers from becoming commercial truckers.

Vice President JD Vance is coming to Sterling Heights on Monday to campaign alongside three Michigan Republican candidates as the party looks to keep President Donald Trump's coalition together going into the midterms.

House Republicans voted 57-41 today to create a select committee investigating how the state reviewed petitions for the Americans for Citizen Voting ballot proposal.

A larger-than-normal number of Green Party and Working Class Party candidates are running in November, including in several competitive congressional and legislative races where even 1% or 2% of the vote could prove consequential.

The Michigan Libertarian Party this year nominated at least two candidates with criminal records – one convicted of fourth-degree criminal sexual conduct and another who served a year in federal prison for firearms offenses.

Abdul El-Sayed has an old problem.