There’s a new interactive tool to allow the public access to election data focusing on absentee and early voting.
Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson launched the Michigan Voting Dashboard Wednesday.
Data will be posted starting 45 days before each Election Day, reporting the number of absentee ballots requested by voters, the number of those completed and returned to be tabulated, and the number of ballots cast at early voting sites.
The totals are broken down by county and jurisdictions.
Data is updated daily and is pulled from the state’s Qualified Voter File, the secure database of voters used by the Michigan Bureau of Elections and more than 1,600 election clerks throughout the state.
The dashboard will not display information about individual voters to protect their right to ballot secrecy.
The dashboard can be found online at Michigan.gov/VotingDashboard.
