You can return your absentee ballot request form through the mail, in person at your local elections office, or online. We encourage voters to submit their applications as soon as possible. Meridian Township Police Protection Millage RenewalĪll of the incumbents for the Ingham County races defeated their challengers and remain in their current positions.Īll members of the Township Board, as well as the Park Commission, ran unopposed and will keep their positions.Absentee voting is available and no excuse is required. Meridian Township Land Preservation Millage Renewal Meridian Township EMS – Fire Protection Millage Renewal This leaves two tabulators that will need to be fixed in the future.Įlection results for Meridian Township are as follows: The backup machine caused some issues later on, but the polls were about to close. This was fixed by using the backup tabulator machine that was ordered years ago. At one of the precincts, one tabulator went out for around two hours. Overall, there were very few complications at Meridian’s precincts. “Statistically, it was interesting to note that the number held up the same even with this particular election in place.” “Even though we had much smaller numbers of AV ballots sent out in the last few years, we always had typically around a 92%-93% return rate,” said Dreyfus.
18,800 of those ballots were returned for a return rate of 92.3%.ĭespite the Township, and even the nation, issuing more absentee ballots than ever before because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the return rate of absentee voter, or AV, ballots are quite similar to previous years. The Township issued a total of 20,349 absentee voter ballots. Only 27% of the ballots were cast at the polls this election. The residents in Meridian favored voting absentee. “I was surprised to see those numbers going up.”Ībout 76% of those registered casted their ballots as either absentee or filled them out at the polls. “That’s a pretty big increase,” said Dreyfus. The number of registered voters increased by over 2,000 people since the last election. In the Township overall, 33,980 people are registered to vote. The report consisted of most of the numbers from the election on November 3rd regarding Meridian Township, as well as how the day went overall at the precincts.
MERIDIAN TOWNSHIP - Meridian Township's Clerk, Brett Dreyfus, delivered the election report Thursday night at the Township Board meeting.
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