Flint Township taking advantage of new processes ahead of Election Day

[Siwsan]

(This is where I vote. I'm getting ready to head out. It will be interesting to see if there is a crowd. I have my warm boots, gloves (it's in the mid-30's, right now) and I'll be carrying a book, just in case.)

FLINT TOWNSHIP, Mich. (WJRT) - (11/02/2020) - City clerks and poll workers are doing everything they can to get ready for a busy day on Tuesday.

In Flint Township, that means getting a head start on processing absentee ballots.?

Thanks to a new State Law, Flint Township is one of about 50 Michigan communities with at least 25,000 people that’s allowed to preprocess absentee ballots a day before the election.

“First person opens. The second person pulls the ballot up far enough that they can read the ballot number and make sure that it matches the label on the ballot, and then the third person pulls out the secrecy sleeve and bundles it back into 25,” Township Clerk, Kathy Funk said.

Funk says her crew got about halfway through the 10,000 absentee ballots that have already been returned as of Monday night.?

more at:

https://www.abc12.com/2020/11/03/flint-township-taking-advantage-of-new-processes-ahead-of-election-

[safeinOhio]

1. It's packed at my Central Mi. Polling place.

Never seen that many cars in the lot. Glad I voted by mail.

[Siwsan]

2. The entire population of Flint Township is about 30,000

So if 10,000 mail in votes were tallied, yesterday, with probably that many, or more, to be tallied today, I'm not ALL that concerned about a big crowd. I figured if I went after the people who are working go vote, and before any lunch crowd, I should be fine.

I remember in either 2008 or 2012, there was a HUGE line up for every precinct but mine. I walked right in. I think mine is a very heavy 'retired population' precinct.

I will, of course, be reporting back in.