Election Day 2022: Absentee voting up in Battle Creek, compared to 2018
Updated 7:45 p.m. ET Nov. 8, 2022 Battle Creek issued 6,185 absentee ballots for the Nov. 8 gubernatorial election, and the majority have been retu...
Updated 7:45 p.m. ET Nov. 8, 2022 Battle Creek issued 6,185 absentee ballots for the Nov. 8 gubernatorial election, and the majority have been returned. More than 91% of absentee voters in the city (5,645 people) had returned ballots as of mid-day Tuesday, Deputy City Clerk Alicia Greene said. In August 2018, the most recent gubernatorial election, only 3,864 absentee ballots were returned in the city, Greene added. Battle Creek issued just 3,321 absentee ballots to voters in this year's August primary election, she said.