MARQUETTE, MI-- If absentee ballot requests are any measure, Marquette residents are eager to vote in the November election.
In an article on the website Rural Insights, City Clerk Kyle Whitney says his office is processing more than 5,600 absentee ballot applications. That represents almost 40 percent of the city’s registered voters. Whitney says that’s the highest number of ballots the office has ever sent out in a single election.
To see if you’re registered to vote go to mi.gov/vote. If the clerk’s office receives an application electronically or by mail it will send it out as soon as possible—typically the next day; otherwise anyone applying in person will get a ballot over the counter.
Once filled out the ballot can be mailed, placed in a secure drop box at City Hall or Marquette Municipal Service Center, or dropped off at a satellite office at Northern Michigan University. The office is in room 1205 of the Northern Center.
