Wednesday, January 17, 2024
The Mining Journal 5A
Region
Voters will face
changes in election
rules this year
By Escanaba
Daily Press staff
ESCANABA
“precincts” at the township
hall. Once the early voting
is over, those machines will
be removed from the hall
and the Wells Township
Precinct 1 and Precinct 2
machines will be moved in
for the Election Day voters
who live in the township.
There will be no early
voting for the May elec-
tion, which is a special lo-
cal election where residents
will vote whether or not to
recall three county com-
missioners. However, there
will be nine-day early vot-
ing periods for the August
primary election and the
November general election.
Early voters in those elec-
tions will also appear at the
Wells Township Hall from
8 a.m. to 4 p.m. during the
early voting period.
Early voting may be the
best option for voters who
are looking to avoid crowds
while still voting in person.
According to Przewroc-
ki, when Oakland County
started early voting with last
years’ November general
election the voter turnout
was only 2%.
“Two-percent, that’s a lot
of expense when you add up
the cost of all these election
workers, because we have
to have election workers for
the nine days,” she said, not-
ing the county had received
$30,000 worth of voter
equipment — paid for by
the state — for early voting,
and the election workers for
Delta County’s early voting
were experienced election
workers from communities
across the county.
Those planning to vote ab-
sentee can skip the precincts
all-together, but they will be
required to request an ab-
sentee ballot for whichever
party they will be voting in
for the presidential primary
next month.
“Starting in 2018, they
could be put on a permanent
(absentee) ballot list where
they would automatically
receive an application for
every election. Now, new
starting this year, they can
be put on a permanent
ballot list, where they can
just receive a ballot. They
don’t have to fill out an
application,” said Prze-
wrocki.
—
Pro-
posal 2, a slew of election
reforms passed by Michi-
gan residents in 2002, will
take effect this year. What
this means for voters will
largely depend on how they
choose to cast their vote.
Under the new rules there
are three types of voting: ab-
sentee, early, and Election
Day. For those voting on
Election Day, there won’t
be any noticeable changes.
Residents will still appear
at their voting precinct —
which is determined by
their home address — be-
tween 7 a.m. and 8 p.m.
Other voters will see sig-
nificant changes to how
they cast their ballots.
Because 2024 is a pres-
idential election year, the
first election of the year is
a presidential primary elec-
tion. Michigan uses a pri-
mary system where voters
must declare which of the
two major parties they want
to participate in the primary
for before they are given a
ballot. Election Day vot-
ers will declare this when
they reach their precinct
polling place on Tuesday,
Feb. 27, the official date
of the primary election,
but absentee and early
voters will have a slightly
different process.
Early voters will also de-
clare their ballot choice in
person, however, all ear-
ly voting in Delta Coun-
ty — regardless of where
voters live in the county
— will take place at the
Wells Township Hall from
Saturday, Feb. 17 through
Sunday, Feb. 25, from 8
a.m. to 4 p.m. When voters
appear at the hall, which is
located at 6436 N. 8th St. in
the “village” area of Wells,
they will declare which par-
ty’s primary they are voting
in and an election worker
will print a ballot for them
on the spot.
“It would be 44 differ-
ent ballots that we would
have to keep track of,” said
Delta County Clerk Nancy
Przewrocki, explaining that
print-on-demand ballots are
easier because each of the
22 precincts would require
both Democratic and Re-
publican ballots without the
technology.
While all ballots will be
printed on demand, voters
will submit their ballots
through two separate vot-
ing machines, forming two
Eli Schaefer captured video of a cougar catching a deer before dragging it away via a camera he had set up at a favorite
hunting site near Toivola. (Photo courtesy of Eli Schaefer via Houghton Daily Mining Gazette)
Cougar video
caught on Copper
Country trail cam
By Houghton Daily
Mining Gazette staff
HOUGHTON
him sooner. He covered researcher, who called his
some ground.”
footage “the dream shot.”
Also, he said, “I was
“It’s the only thing she’s
sightings in the Copper
Country between 2008 and
2022.
—
A
Houghton man became the thinking how easily that never been able to capture
latest Michigan resident to could’ve been me, when I on video, is a cougar tak-
The DNR also plans to vis-
it the site. Schaefer said the
state’s large carnivore spe-
cialist is scheduled to come
this week to confirm the find-
ings. That will involve re-
cording the GPS location and
comparing the background
to that in the photo, he said.
Schaefer enjoys the reaction
his video has gotten.
“I think it’s really cool, get-
ting all that interest and that,”
he said. “I wish it wasn’t at
my favorite deer hunting
spot, but if it wasn’t there, I
wouldn’t have gotten it on
camera.”
capture footage of a cougar was checking the camera.”
ing down their prey, like a
last month.
Eli Schaefer captured vid- a photo of a cougar from
Schaefer had captured deer,” he said.
The deer is estimated at
eo on Dec. 30 of a cougar another nearby camera in around 100 pounds, Schae-
taking down a deer on a October. But the video was fer said. The researcher also
camera he placed at one of what really caught people’s guessed the cougar was a
his favorite hunting spots attention. He sent it to his male based on the large size
near Toivola. He didn’t father, who said he’d never of the head.
find out what he had until seen anything like it.
about a week later, when he
looked at the footage.
Cougrs were once native
“A lot of people are to Michigan, though the
amazed I was even able existing wild population
Residents on either list
will have to declare a party
for the presidential primary.
In that case, voters on the
permanent ballot list will
be sent a form to request the
appropriate ballot.
“I went in and hit play and to get a video like that,” was killed off in the early
was like, ‘Oh my god,’” he Schaefer said. “Most peo- 1900s, the Michigan De-
said. “The first thought was ple can barely even get a partment of Natural Re-
how fast the cat must have clear picture.”
sources website/ The DNR
been moving not to catch
He also heard from a Utah website lists 19 cougar
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