Detroit Clerk Janice Winfrey and elections officer Daniel Baxter. Photo: Samuel Robinson

Detroit Clerk Janice Winfrey told reporters at a press conference Thursday the city elections department expects 65,000 to 90,000 voters to participate in the upcoming primary election Tuesday, Aug. 5.

Winfrey said 40,000 absentee ballots have been returned so far. They started counting the ballots at Huntington Place Thursday morning and expect to count between 55,000 and 60,000 absentee ballots by Tuesday, the night of the election.

As for early voting, 902 voters have voted early at one of the eight early voting centers, Winfrey said.

In the most recent municipal election in 2021, about 5% of registered voters voted at the polls on Election Day.

“If that trend continues, we expect around 25,000

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