GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Voters around West Michigan will go to the polls Tuesday, deciding on local issues like bonds, millages and primaries for municipal offices.
In-person polls open at 7 a.m. and close at 8 p.m. You can find your polling place and view a sample ballot by visiting the Michigan Secretary of State's Voter Information Center website. You don’t need to show photo identification to vote, but it does speed up the process, so the SOS and local clerks advise you to bring your ID.
If you’re voting absentee but haven’t yet returned your ballot, it’s too late to put it in the mail. Absentee ballots must be returned by the time polls close Tuesday to get counted — an Aug. 5 postmark isn’t good enough (with an exception for military and overseas ballots). Instead of putting i