Volunteers host carnival in Detroit to encourage voting
A group of volunteers at Ralph C. Wilson Centennial Park in Detroit took an unusual approach Saturday to get people ready to vote in November: a carnival.
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A group of volunteers at Ralph C. Wilson Centennial Park in Detroit took an unusual approach Saturday to get people ready to vote in November: a carnival.
More than 40,000 Michigan voters have already returned their absentee ballots as of Wednesday, the Michigan Voting Dashboard shows.
While the number of printed absentee ballots that omitted the Belleville Area District Library board races is not yet available, it could be close to 10,000.
If you are on Michigan's permanent absent voter list or signed up to get an absentee voter ballot for the Nov. 3 election, the ballots are on the way.
Victoria Viktorovna Aquilina, 43, entered the U.S. more than 20 years ago and never became a citizen. Federal prosecutors in Detroit say she voted in person in the 2024 presidential election anyway.
Absentee ballots are scheduled to begin going out to Michigan voters this week.
Here's everything you need to know to be ready to vote in Michigan for the 2026 midterm election.
At a Detroit NAACP forum, Kamala Harris pushed for a big Democratic turnout for Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed, warning: "We've got to be too big to rig."
Republicans are trying to win an open Senate seat race in Michigan, and nominee Mike Rogers is stepping up his appeals to some Democrats.
Will Lawrence, a progressive Democratic congressional candidate in Michigan, is trying to harness unease over the rapid pace of artificial intelligence development to defeat Republican Rep. Tom Barrett.
A woman accused of registering her spouse, who is a non-citizen, to vote has been bound over for trial in Michigan.
The Supreme Court left intact a ruling that blocked the U.S. Postal Service from enforcing new regulations for mail voting, rejecting the Trump administration's effort to move forward with the rules in the midterms.
Two Jewish leaders CBS News Detroit talked to on Thursday said they don't feel heard and have put together a petition they hope political leaders will sign onto that they're calling "Nonnegotiable Principles"
A federal judge temporarily blocked a new rule that would have allowed the U.S. Postal Service to regulate mail-in ballots, now the Trump administration is appealing.
Michigan's nine winning "I Voted" sticker designs for 2026 include a nap-ready cat, a nod to the sunken Edmund Fitzgerald, and a design built around the phrase "No, yeah."
Several Michigan lawmakers answered questions about election security during a town hall hosted by U.S. Rep. Debbie Dingell on Monday in Ann Arbor.
The Michigan attorney general's office charged six people with election law violations, alleging that five voted while not being U.S. citizens and alleging that a sixth registered a non-citizen spouse to vote.
The clerk's office is preparing equipment and procedural updates ahead of the November 2026 general election.
Waterford Township was one of five townships in Oakland County to see voters reject millage proposals addressing public safety.
Thursday was the 61st anniversary of the Voting Rights Act, and on Saturday, a nationwide organization made sure to honor that anniversary by increasing voter engagement, turnout, and education in Metro Detroit and across the U.S.
Over 60 years after the Voting Rights Act was signed into law, an organization is still working to protect and strengthen the right to vote. On Saturday, the League of Women Voters focused on voter engagement, turnout and education. Heath Kalb shows why the organization chose Detroit to be part of a nationwide event.
Michigan Congresswoman Haley Stevens' bid for the U.S. Senate is over, but at 43, her political career may not be.
Early and absentee voting accounted for well over half of the ballots in several Southeast Michigan counties, officials say.
Michigan voting trends are skewing toward absentee ballots and early in-person voting, based on Secretary of State data.
CBS News Detroit is following multiple local, state and federal races in Michigan, including the gubernatorial and U.S. House and Senate races.
