Early Absent Voter Ballot Processing & Tabulating

For the August 2024 Primary, all communities are allowed to authorize an AV counting board (AVCB) to process and tabulate absent voter (AV) ballots on the Monday before Election Day. Cities and townships with a population of at least 5,000, and cities and townships with a combined AVCB, may process and tabulate AV ballots on any of the 8 days before Election Day. Processing and tabulating AV ballots is separate from tabulation of ballots at an early voting site and replaces any AV ballot “preprocessing” previously established in Michigan election law. (refer to MCL 168.765a)

Grosse Pointe Woods will be preprocessing absentee ballots on Saturday, August 3, 2024, beginning at 9 am, and to be completed no later than 4 pm, in the City Council Chambers at 20025 Mack Plaza Dr., GPW, MI 48236.   Any ballot received by 5 pm on Wednesday, July 31, 2024, is eligible for preprocessing. The Preprocessing Absent Voter Counting Board will consist of a minimum of 8 election inspectors.