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Polls are open Tuesday, Nov. 3, and eligible Detroiters who aren't registered can still sign up and cast a ballot the same day at the City Clerk's Office.
Election Day is Tuesday, Nov. 3, and in Detroit the city has left very few reasons to sit it out.
Not sure where you vote? Look up your assigned polling place at the Michigan Voter Information Center, mvic.sos.state.mi.us.
Here's the part a lot of people miss. If you're not registered, you can still register and vote in person at the Detroit City Clerk's Office at 2 Woodward Ave. #200. When you register in person you'll be asked for a photo ID, and if you don't have one, you can sign a form called an affidavit and then register to vote.
The bar to qualify is low. You have to be a U.S. citizen. You have to have lived in Detroit for at least 30 days.
Early voting started Oct. 24. If you are still holding an absentee ballot, it has to be back by 8 p.m. on Election Day, so at this point it's smarter to drop it at a box or hand it to a clerk than to mail it.
As for the ballot itself, it runs deep: governor, secretary of state, attorney general, the Michigan Supreme Court, and more. Two proposals will appear on the ballot statewide.
Whatever you bring to the booth, bring it. Detroit runs its own elections, and for one Tuesday the whole city gets a say.
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