10/4/23 Fraser-Clinton Chronicle

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OCTOBER 4, 2023 • Vol. 35, No. 21

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Clinton Twp. to have one early voting site BY DEAN VAGLIA dvaglia@candgnews.com

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Former President Donald Trump offered remarks before a crowd of supporters and auto workers at Drake Enterprises in Clinton Township on Sept. 27.

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CLINTON TOWNSHIP — Communities across Macomb County are deciding where they will host early voting for the 2024 election season, and only one site will serve Clinton Township’s nearly 100,000 residents next year. A smaller-than usual Board of Trustees featuring only four members voted unanimously on a resolution to make Clinton Township Hall on Romeo Plank Road the only early voting site in Michigan’s most populated township on the evening of Sept. 18. “There was a lot of discussion in my office about where these locations should be placed, and given the fact it is such a new endeavor and there’s a lot of costs associated that the state is not willing to compensate, we decided this would be the best location to roll this project out for the presidential primary, which is going to be held Feb. 27,” said clerk Kim Meltzer. Meltzer told trustees there would be educational information put out by her office in the lead-up to the February primaries and explained the early voting process. “Once the voter puts that ballot in the tabulator … it is tabulated,” Meltzer said. “It doesn’t mean we know the answer, we don’t get any results at that point. However, what it does mean is that voters will not be able to change their mind.” By having the vote tabulated and received in the same way an election day in-person vote is, ear-


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