V is for Voting!
Promote the Vote partnered with over 30 organizations to overwhelmingly pass Proposal 2 of 2022 which amended the Michigan Constitution to increase voting rights and options. Below are summaries of what's new, and links to help you find further details.
M is for Matters. Your vote does!
- At least nine days of early in person voting in federal and state elections.
- The right to join a permanent absentee ballot list and receive a ballot automatically.
- More drop boxes for absentee ballots in many communities: at least one per 15,000 registered voters.
- Increased drop-box security.
- Free postage to return absentee ballots by mail.
- Additional types of ID may be presented in order to vote.
- If a voter has no ID, an identification affidavit may be signed in order to vote a regular ballot.
- To help election workers and promote timely results, in communities of more than 5,000 residents, clerks may begin to tabulate results up to 8 days before an election.
- Enhanced tracking of absentee ballots and voter notification allowing voters to verify their signatures or correct other ballot-marking issues in time.
- Absentee ballots of military and voters living overseas are timely if postmarked by Election Day and received within six days of the election.
"...to protect the least powerful, to register all who are eligible to vote, and to make voting fair and easy." Stacey Abrams
Prop 2: Protecting the Vote
- No person or legal entity can act to interfere with or unreasonably burden the fundamental right to vote, either by act of law or by harassment or intimidation.
- The results of an election shall be determined solely by the ballots cast and certified by the Board of Canvassers. Neither the Board of Canvassers nor the legislature can override the will of the voters.
Making Voting Easier
- Governor Whitmer's recent executive action designated voter registration duties to several state agencies: Military and Veteran's Affairs, Health and Human Services, Housing, Corrections, etc,
- Persons working with these agencies will be helped to register to vote.
- Voters are allowed to accept rides to the polls.
- Teens may pre-register to vote at the age of sixteen.
Find out how to register to vote, apply for absentee ballots, find your polling place for early in person voting and voting on Election Day, find your drop-box...and everything else about voting at the Michigan Voter Information Center (MVIC).
Help a potential voter whose first language is other than English via the Michigan Secretary of State's Translation Services. Select a language and scroll down.
Find a great summary of Michigan's expanded voting rights and new voting options in a League of Women Voters 2 Pager.