Joe dropping off his ballot at the drop box outside Ferndale City Hall. Photo: Joe Guillen/Axios
👋 Joe here, with a voting experience to share.
The big picture: This is Michigan's first presidential election with in-person early voting, which started statewide on Saturday and runs through Sunday.
Voters can also vote at home before Election Day (Nov. 5) by requesting an absentee ballot and returning it via mail, at a drop box or at their local clerk's office.
Zoom in: I usually vote at the polls on Election Day. But this year I decided to vote absentee so I could spend more time researching local races and issues.
State of play: After I filled out my ballot, I looked up locations of Ferndale's ballot drop boxes on the state's voter information website and dropped it off.
By the time I got home a few hours later, I already had received an email informing me my ballot "was received and accepted for counting."
Zoom out: More than 250,000 Michiganders voted early over the weekend and more than 1.5 million have returned absentee ballots, the Free Press reports.
The bottom line: There's still plenty of time to vote early, or you can cast your ballot on Election Day at your polling site.
