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Tagged: absentee voting

Politics & Government
9:00 am
Sat January 19, 2013

The week in review

Credit Steve Carmody / Michigan Radio
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Week in review interview for 1/19/13

This “week in review” Michigan Radio’s Weekend Edition host Rina Miller and political analyst Jack Lessenberry discuss: Governor Rick Snyder’s State of the State speech, the possibility of no fault absentee voting, a positive report on Michigan’s housing market, and a possible tax amnesty program for Detroit.

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Politics & Government
2:41 pm
Wed October 24, 2012

Hundreds of Auburn Hills absentee ballots not delivered

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On October 3rd, Terry Kowal, City Clerk for Auburn Hills, sent out 1,455 absentee voting ballots to residents who had requested them.

She knew she had a problem about a week later.  Calls started coming in from voters, saying things like, "Where's my ballot?  My husband got his, but I didn't get mine."

"That always raises a red flag for clerks because they're mailed at the same time," Kowal told Michigan Radio.  (And) they're filed alphabetically, so they'd be in the same mail tray."

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