781,000 Absentee Ballots Returned in Michigan in 2024 Election so Far, Data Show

The figure is about 200,000 fewer than the same time period four years ago, data show.

A worker with the Detroit Department of Elections helps stack empty boxes used to organize absentee ballots after nearing the end of the absentee ballot count at the Central Counting Board in the TCF Center on Nov. 4, 2020, in Detroit. Elaine Cromie/Getty Images

With 20 days to go before Election Day on Nov. 5, more than 781,000 ballots have been cast so far in Michigan, according to the top election agency in the battleground state.

As of Oct. 16, 781,534 absentee ballots have been returned across Michigan, according to a tracking tool from the Michigan Department of State. Notably, in Wayne County, which includes Detroit, about 343,000 people have voted absentee so far, representing about 84 percent of the mail-in ballots requested.