Can homeless people vote in Michigan?

Yes! And that’s why you might see a lot of people whose voter records show them registered in a park, on a street corner, or at a church.

Homeless voters must establish residency in some way, but like any Michigan voter, they can sign an affidavit instead of showing photo ID.

Letters from a shelter or group working with the voter are accepted as long as it has their name and confirms they live in Michigan.

Like any other Michigan voter, voters without permanent addresses can register and vote on Election Day.

Is there a problem with Dominion voting machines in Michigan?

Only some of the machines have a problem, and it’s a problem with their ease of use, not their security.

The failure is occurring nationwide with Dominion voter assistance terminals, which are affordable cars designed to help voters with disabilities. These are not tabs; are touch screen vote marking devices that allow blind or other voters to use various assistive technologies to cast their vote.

All polling stations are legally required to have VAT, however not all use Dominion machines. The Dominion VAT is used in 65 of Michigan’s 83 counties.

According to Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, statewide VATs have a programming error where if a voter uses the “direct ticket” voting option and then wants to vote cross-party in certain individual races (which is allowed in Michigan), gets an error.

It can be solved by simply selecting the candidates one by one on the ballot.

VATs are essential for voters with disabilities, but each is used by only a few voters each election, Michigan clerks say. The issue is annoying to those voters, but won’t affect most others.

Why is it taking so long for Michigan results to come out?

It is absolutely normal not to know the election results immediately after the polls close. Clerks say they are accurately counting thousands of ballots – millions across the state! — it takes time. And in a very close race, it’s hard to project a winner based on statistical patterns.

The state has done a lot in recent years to try to speed up the processbut it’s not perfect. Clerks have the option to process absentee ballots—remove them from envelopes, verify signatures, and tab them, but NOT count them—before Election Day, which many clerks, especially in big cities, they chose to do it.

We will likely have results from those ballots shortly after polls close on Tuesday. But ballots that arrive on Election Day can take longer. There are also some potential blockages in obtaining the total votes from the precincts to the clerks. Counties using Hart machines, such as Oakland County, can use modems — connected to secure cellular networks, not the Internet — to transmit results quickly. In other places, the results must be shared over a closed computer network (again, not the Internet) and then checked against data from portable data storage devices that are brought in from the premises. This can take a long time.

It is possible that Macomb County in particular it could have slow results this year. Warren, its largest city and third most populous in the state, chose not to preprocess ballots.

Does Michigan have more voters than people eligible to vote?

Not. The claim was widely disproved by the state as well as independent experts.

Michigan has 7.2 million active voters and 7.9 million residents over the age of 18. (We have a high registration rate, in part because anyone who gets a driver’s license is automatically registered to vote.)