Be A Voter!

A Nonpartisan Resource for Election Information

Early voting, registration, and mail-in information

Early Voting:

• • With the passage of Michigan Proposal 2022-2, beginning in 2024 for state-wide and federal elections, voters are guaranteed access to 9 days of early, in-person voting.

Clerks’ Elections Pages:
Select your city or township for information on voter registration, absentee voting, location of drop-boxes, voting at the polls, and more.

• • Kalamazoo City
  • Kalamazoo Township
  • Oshtemo Township
  • Texas Township

Drop Boxes in Michigan:
MI constitution requires all municipalities to have a secure drop-box where its voters can return absentee ballot applications and voted absentee ballots. Learn more.

• • Kalamazoo City Clerk Polling and Drop Box Locations

Upcoming election dates

• Key Dates – from MichiganVoting.org

Election information

More resources:

• • Black Voters Matter – Voting Toolbox – Voter registration and polling info; how to request an absentee ballot; sign up for election reminders.
  • League of Women Voters Kalamazoo Area – The League’s Voter Guide and vote411.org website are useful resources for up-to-date local election information. The current Voter Guide, at all library locations, includes Kalamazoo Public Library board candidates.
    • See Your Voter Guide: Enter your address. Find responses from the candidates on your ballot.
  • Michigan Election Results and Data – From Michigan Secretary of State.
  • Michigan Voter Information Center – General election information from the Michigan Secretary of State.
  • Michiganvoting.org – Nonpartisan resource provides everything you need to know about how to register and vote in Michigan.
  • MI Vote.org – Election tools, deadlines, rules and much more, all specific to Michigan.

Videos:

How-to videos from Michiganvoting.org – in English and Spanish, on registration, early voting and voting absentee, and completing a ballot.

Voting Rights Information – For Michigan residents with a felony record.

Election integrity and general election resources

• • Annenberg Political Fact Check – Designed to help voters by “monitoring the factual accuracy of what is said by major U.S. political players in the form of television ads, debates, speeches, interviews, and news releases.” Primary focus is on presidential candidates in presidential election years, and on the top Senate races in midterm elections. In off-election years, primary focus is on the action in Congress.
  • Center for Public Integrity – A well documented investigative journalism organization and winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 2014 and 2017.
  • Michigan Votes – Project of the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, a nonpartisan, nonprofit research and educational institution. Its purpose is to provide easy-to-find information about past and current legislation. Bills can be searched by bill number, category, or keyword. The site empowers citizens to stay informed and to hold their elected representatives accountable.
  • Newsguard – Browser extension that provides an easy way to evaluate websites. “Green-Red ratings compiled by a team of trained journalists signal if a website is trying to get it right, has a hidden agenda, or knowingly publishes falsehoods or propaganda.”
  • Politifact – A fact-checking website founded by editors of Time Magazine and in conjunction with Congressional Quarterly.