Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed into law on Tuesday a measure that should speed up election results in November.
The new law allows city or township clerks to create an "absent voting counting board" with other local clerks to join forces to count absentee ballots.
“There are a lot of smaller jurisdictions in Ingham County and across the state that this will benefit greatly,” says Lansing city clerk Chris Swope.
Swope says processing ballots with an absent voting counting board rather than in a precinct will speed up the count.
More Michiganders than normal are expected to cast absentee ballots this fall due partly to concerns about COVID-19.
