Why turnout, absentee votes and redistricting could influence who becomes governor, represents Michigan in Congress and controls the Legislature.
Jonathan Oosting
Jonathan is a deputy editor for Bridge Michigan. He helps plan and execute in-depth reporting and campaign coverage. As a longtime political reporter, Jonathan was named 2021 Journalist of the Year by the Michigan Press Association. He and a colleague shared that honor again in 2023, when they were also named Journalists of the Year by the Society of Professional Journalists – Detroit Chapter. Jonathan covered the state Capitol for The Detroit News and MLive before joining Bridge in September of 2019. He's from Grand Rapids, lives in Lansing and loves spending time Up North.
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Tudor Dixon draws big crowds, energy in uphill push for Michigan governor
Experts say the Republican is peaking at the right time, but started slow. Can her message of parental choice, fighting crime and cutting regulations close the gap?
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Michigan’s poll challenge rules upheld by court in blow to Republicans
The Michigan Supreme Court upholds Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson’s guidance to clerks barring poll challengers from bringing phones into absentee counting stations. It’s Republicans’ second court loss involving voting rules in as many days.
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Gretchen Whitmer’s final push: ‘Fundamental rights’ are at stake in Michigan
As Gretchen Whitmer woos voters ahead of the Nov. 8 election, the Michigan governor works to boost turnout by highlighting her work to protect voting and abortion rights and blasting the GOP as ‘too extreme.’
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Kristina Karamo wants to invalidate mail-in ballots – but only in Detroit
Democratic incumbent Jocelyn Benson called a lawsuit arguing Detroit residents should be required to cast their absentee ballots in person ‘egregious.’
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Barack Obama rallies for Gretchen Whitmer, seeks to boost turnout in Detroit
‘Tuning out is not an option,’ the former president says, attempting to enthuse Democrats in the state’s largest city before the Nov. 8 election.
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Barry County to Dar Leaf: Election probe waste of money, defunds detective
Commissioners say election probe is a waste of money, cut funding for a third detective who was to investigate violent crime, not ballots. Separately, Leaf tried to charge a health officer for enforcing COVID orders, prosecutor says.
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Michigan absentee ballots: What happens after vote, why they may delay results
What happens after voters drop an absentee ballot into a drop box? A look at the painstaking verification and counting process that could delay results 24 hours after polls close.
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Matthew DePerno: MAGA favorite under investigation may be next attorney general
DePerno is Michigan’s top election conspiracy theorist, spending years trying to prove Donald Trump won the state. Now, he’s locked in a tight race with Attorney General Dana Nessel, who has her own baggage.
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Michigan governor final debate: Fact checking Tudor Dixon-Gretchen Whitmer
On schools, COVID restrictions and more, the truth occasionally got stretched to its limit during Tuesday’s second and last debate.