The Permanent Mail Ballot List is a list of voters who have signed up to automatically receive a ballot by mail before each election. Previously, Michigan voters could sign up to receive an absentee ballot application before each election. The new Permanent Mail Ballot List allows voters to sign up to receive a ballot before every election, eliminating the need to submit a new application each time. You can sign up to join the Permanent Mail Ballot List when you apply for your absentee ballot for an upcoming election. Simply check the box on the application indicating that you’d like to automatically receive a mail ballot for each future election. 

 Any Michigan voter can join the Permanent Mail Ballot List. However, the list is best suited for voters who wish to vote from home in every election and who generally receive their mail ballot at the same address for each election. Voters who wish to vote from home in every election, but who may not be at the same address for each election–snowbirds, for example–can also join the list, but they must remember to update their mailing address with their local clerk.

 Remember: Voters on the old application list will NOT automatically be moved to the new Permanent Mail Ballot List. If you’d like to join the new Permanent Mail Ballot List, you must affirmatively sign up. 

Please share the graphic and video below with your communities so they can take advantage of the Permanent Mail Ballot List. 

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