Unless you are serving in the military or living overseas, your ballot must be received by your local clerk by 8 p.m. on Election Day (November 4) to count. After tomorrow, we no longer recommend returning your ballot by mail. Starting on Wednesday (October 22) you should:

 Drop your ballot off at your local clerk’s office or satellite office or in a secure drop box in your city or township. You can find your clerk’s office(s), satellite office(s), and drop box(es) by visiting MI.gov/vote and clicking on “Your voter information.” You can also have an immediate family member (including a father-in-law, mother-in-law, brother-in-law, sister-in-law, son-in-law, daughter-in-law, grandparent, or grandchild) or a person from your household drop your ballot off for you.

 If you are unable to drop your ballot off or have an eligible person drop it off for you, you can ask your city or township clerk to pick up your completed ballot. You can use this option as long as your ballot is in the city or township where you are registered to vote and you contact your clerk by 5 p.m. on Friday, October 31. To find the phone number for your city or township clerk, visit MI.gov/vote and click on “Where are my clerk’s offices?”

 Bring your completed ballot to your early voting site or (if you live anywhere other than Detroit) to your polling place on Election Day and feed it into a tabulator. Just tell the poll workers you’d like to do this when you check in. You can find your early voting site(s) and Election Day polling place by visiting MI.gov/vote and clicking on “Your voter information.” 

 We encourage you to track your absentee ballot and application by visiting mi.gov/vote and clicking on “Your voter information.” (If there’s no date under a particular step, it means that step is not complete.) You can also now sign up for tracking notifications by email.To sign up, go to mi.gov/vote and click on “subscribe to ballot notifications.” 

 And before submitting your completed absentee ballot, be sure to sign your ballot envelope with your official signature, that is, the signature you used for your driver’s license or your voter registration form. If you don’t sign your ballot envelope, your ballot will be rejected.