LANSING, Mich. — Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer on Friday signed a package of bills allowing clerks in large cities two days of pre-processing time to make it faster to tabulate absentee ballots on Election Day.
The package, which was negotiated between Whitmer and the GOP-Legislature, also included provisions tightening security around ballot drop boxes and changing the way dead people are removed from voting rolls.
Those provisions will all take effect before the Nov. 8 election. Other measures in the package will take effect after, such as an expansion of locations that can be used as polling places and allowances that would make it possible for overseas military members to submit their absentee ballots electronically.
