Michigan voters head to the polls Tuesday, Aug. 4 for the state’s primary election, and state officials are urging anyone who hasn’t cast a ballot yet to go in informed — and confident about their rights.
Michigan’s statewide early in-person voting period ends Sunday ahead of the Aug. 4 primary, but some local jurisdictions will continue offering early voting on Monday.
A new lawsuit argues that voters in swing state Wisconsin whose absentee ballots haven't arrived by Election Day should be allowed to cast provisional ballots at the polls to ensure their vote is counted.
For those who prefer to vote in-person, early voting sites are set to open statewide on Saturday, July 25, and will remain open through Aug. 2.
Election officials in states that allow mail ballots to be counted after Election Day say they are relieved that the U.S. Supreme Court has rejected an effort to outlaw the practice.
The Supreme Court is rejecting a Republican-led attack on state laws that allow the counting of late-arriving mail ballots, a target of President Donald Trump.
The U.S. Supreme Court has heard arguments on whether states can continue to count late-arriving mail ballots — an election issue targeted by President Donald Trump.
The Supreme Court’s conservative majority sounds skeptical of state laws that allow the counting of late-arriving mail ballots, a target of President Donald Trump.
Voting rights advocates in Alaska are worried that a case set to be heard by the U.S. Supreme Court could end a long-standing practice of the state accepting ballots after Election Day.
The U.S. Supreme Court is set to hear arguments over a Mississippi law that allows counting late-arriving mail ballots after Election Day.
Iowa’s top election official and a group of voters the state had flagged as potential noncitizens just ahead of the 2024 presidential election settled a federal lawsuit that will prevent the state from relying exclusively on driver’s license records for citizenship data in the three months before an election.
Democrat Christian Menefee has won a Texas U.S. House seat in a special election that will narrow Republicans’ already-slim majority.
A federal judge has dismissed a U.S. Department of Justice lawsuit against California that sought detailed voting records and personal data on the state’s 23 million registered voters.
A group of Democratic U.S. senators is voicing concern over U.S. Postal Service processing changes and what those could mean for voting with mail ballots.
The contentious race for Hamtramck mayor faces new complications as both candidates pursue legal action and a recount looms, weeks after Election Day produced one of the closest margins in the city’s history.
The Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether states can continue their practice of counting mail ballots that arrive after Election Day.
Michigan’s general election will be held today, Nov. 4, 2025. Here’s what voters need to know before heading to the polls:
Michigan’s general election will be held on Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2025. Here’s what voters need to know before heading to the polls:
With Election Day approaching, churches in Detroit are encouraging people to go from the “pews to the polls,” making sure every voice is heard.
Local 4’s Nick Monacelli put a panel together and asked Gen Z voters what they want to see in a new leader, what they want in terms of public transit, how to attract more young people in the city and frustrations they have.
Washington state voters will decide whether to amend their constitution to allow funds from a long-term care insurance program to be invested in the stock market.
President Donald Trump and other Republicans have long criticized states that take weeks to count their ballots after Election Day.
Casting mailed ballots remained popular among voters in last year’s presidential election, even as President Donald Trump has tried to undercut the process through a wide-ranging executive order.
The attorneys general for California and New York are praising a federal judge's decision to block President Donald Trump’s executive order on elections.
Kansas is shrinking what already was among the nation’s shortest windows for voting by mail.
Stock indexes drifted to a mixed finish on Wall Street as some heavyweight technology and communications sector stocks offset gains elsewhere in the market.
Shares are lower in Tokyo and Shanghai, two of only a handful of world markets open on Christmas day.
Bitcoin burst on the scene after trust had withered in the financial system and Washington’s ability to protect people from it.
Mississippi's practice of removing voting rights for certain felonies is cruel and unusual.
After ripping higher for much of this year, the price of gold has suddenly become not so golden since Donald Trump’s victory in the presidential election.
Control of the U.S. House rests on just over a dozen races where winners have not yet been determined.
A judge has struck down a state law that made it easier for New Yorkers to sue over electoral divisions and voting rules that weakened the political voice of minority groups, saying its special protections based on race and ethnicity are unconstitutional.
A relatively trouble-free presidential election was good news for those working to restore faith in the system.
Certain voters in Georgia’s third-largest county who received their absentee ballots late will have their votes counted as long as their ballots were postmarked by Election Day and are received by Friday.
NASCAR Truck Series championship contender Ty Majeski was fined $12,500 for missing his media session to go vote in his home state of Wisconsin on Election Day.
Meet Jane Hynous, a student at Grosse Pointe’s Brownell Middle School, whose artwork is the latest must-have for voters.
At Thompson International Academy, a Southfield mother beamed with pride, standing next to her daughter, Latricia Nabor, who traveled hundreds of miles to fulfill her civic duty on Election Day.
Starting at 8 p.m. tonight, streaming only on Local 4+ and ClickOnDetroit, join team coverage as we break down the results across Michigan and nationally as they come in.
Starting at 8 p.m. tonight, streaming only on Local 4+ and ClickOnDetroit, join team coverage as we break down the results across Michigan and nationally as they come in.
The candidates and issues are weighing heavily on voters' minds, which leads to election anxiety in Metro Detroit.
A 28-year-old Michigan man was arrested at the U.S. Capitol on Election Day after he showed up smelling like fuel, with a torch and flare gun.
Starting at 8 p.m. tonight, streaming only on Local 4+ and ClickOnDetroit, join team coverage as we break down the results across Michigan and nationally as they come in.
Millions of Michigan voters cast their ballots ahead of Election Day. Here's more on how those absentee and early voting ballots are counted.
After clouds and some rain showers to start the week on Monday, we will keep the wet weather in the forecast, looking ahead to our Election Day on Tuesday.
As swing states are expected play a key role in the outcome of the 2024 presidential race, here's why it takes some of them longer to count ballots.
A series of bomb threats across multiple battleground states and baseless claims of wrongdoing by former President Donald Trump disrupted an otherwise smooth Election Day in a tumultuous presidential election.
The nation’s federal law enforcement and election security agencies are debunking two new examples of Russian election disinformation on the eve of Election Day.
We’re one day away from the 2024 election, and more than three million votes are in from Michiganders who chose to vote early or absentee. That makes up 43.9% of the state’s active registered voters.
Some Republican-led states say they they will block Justice Department’s election monitors from going inside polling places on Election Day, pushing back on federal authorities’ decades-long practice of watching for violations of federal voting laws.
With just one day until Election Day, Trump, Vance and Walz are holding rallies in Michigan, underscoring the state's importance in the presidential election.
U.S. stock indexes drifted lower ahead of a momentous week full of potential flashpoints in Washington, D.
College and university students can register to vote at their home address or campus address. Students can still cast their ballot in person at their polling place.
Record levels of early voting are making it so polls in Georgia might be a “ghost town” on Election Day.
Most Americans are feeling a lot of emotions heading into Election Day, but excitement is not one of them.
A conservative federal court says Mississippi cannot count mail-in ballots that arrive shortly after Election Day.
We’re two weeks away from Election Day, and former President Barack Obama was back in Detroit to show support for Vice President Kamala Harris with a little help from Eminem.
With Donald Trump's encouragement, Republicans are joining Democrats at the polls to cast their ballots early this year.
With about two weeks before Election Day, the state of Michigan reported there were more than 1,804,238 absentee ballots returned. So far, 2,506 ballots cast during early voting.
Voters in Arizona have no shortage of competitive races to decide in the Nov. 5 general election, with control of the White House, the U.S. Senate and House and both chambers of the state Legislature in the balance.
The FBI has arrested an Afghan man who officials say was inspired by the Islamic State militant organization and was plotting an Election Day attack targeting large crowds in the U.S. That's according to a Justice Department announcement Tuesday.
Americans will cast roughly 160 million ballots by the time Election Day comes to a close — in several different ways, including many cast a few weeks before polls even open.
In-person voting for the 2024 U.S. presidential election has begun in three states — Virginia, South Dakota and Minnesota, the home state of Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Walz.
Americans spent a bit more at retailers last month, providing a small boost to the economy just as the Federal Reserve considers how much to cut its key interest rate.