Detroit officials project 50% voter turnout and fewer absentee ballots than expected

[brooklynite]

Source: Detroit Free Press

Detroit election officials are projecting 50% voter turnout in the city of Detroit, higher than in 2016, but lower than in 2012 and 2008 when Barack Obama's candidacy drew high voter participation.

And the number of absentee ballots the city is expecting is now lower than officials had estimated earlier this month.

Speaking Thursday to reporters in the basement of TCF Center in downtown Detroit, Detroit City Clerk Janice Winfrey and other election officials said they are working to prepare for a historic election in Michigan — a swing state that many will be closely watching next week.

"We want people to have confidence in the process," Winfrey said. "Your vote matters."

Read more: https://www.freep.com/story/news/politics/elections/2020/10/30/detroit-officials-project-50-voter-turnout-november-election/6073662002/

[Proud liberal 80]

1. Have to put you on ignore

A lot of your posts are doom and gloom

[brooklynite]

2. I believe in reporting facts. I don't need to live in a good news bubble.

[LanternWaste]

16. Hence, your unsupported allegation the Lebanese grain silo explosions were caused by Hamas?

Those kind of facts?

Or some other kind of New & Improved Facts? Such as the allegation of living in a bubble another "reporting of facts."

Inquiring Minds Want to Know.

[brooklynite]

17. I'm willing to shift opinion when new facts are presented.

Are there new facts about Detroit's estimate of voting?

[llashram]

4. this

[Polybius]

11. All good news give false confidence

We need to hear facts, whether good or bad.

[lagomorph777]

13. Same here. Enough already.

[Politicub]

21. Good idea.

Done and done.

[idziak4ever1234]

3. A little more perspective from the same article...

The 50% turnout would be higher than the roughly 48% turnout in 2016, but lower than in 2012 when there was 51% turnout and 2008 when there was 53% turnout, Baxter said. The higher turnout in 2008 and 2012 was because Barack Obama's candidacy energized many voters in Detroit, he said.

[kansasobama]

5. Thank you brooklynmite

I also had some info from Detroit and from Miami-Dade a while ago and many castigated me. Actually it is good to have report like yours. This will help to improve turnout of our voters. Proof is the pudding. It is no coincidence Obama and Biden are going to Detroit. Same with Kamala going to Miami this Saturday. I have written to Biden campaign about Detroit and Miami issue a lot. Hope it played 1% part in their push. Believe me Detroit was a lot lower than 48%. I am glad it would be 50%. It is also very depressing absentee ballots are pending in Detroit and Miami. Hope they can work hard over the next 2 days. I think it will improve.

Detroit should be more enthused about Biden than Obama. Biden is coming at a time of racial injustice. If the way Michigan governor was castigated does not help turning out more Democrats, nothing can.

Vote, vote, vote.

[obamanut2012]

8. Because your Miami-Dade was incorrect

And discussed in such a way to skew what it actually meant. You doubledowned when those of us who live here corrected you.

You then tripledowned.

Those of us actually working on the ground here dislike folks from other states telling us we are wrong. When we aren't.

[llashram]

6. this, the whole truth

and I believe this is voter suppression unless this is somehow intended to cause a higher turnout by way of scaring voters in Detroit into understanding they will have to contend with the destruction of our democracy by a fascist wannabe dictator and his GOP cronies in crime that will suspend all elections until maybe his family dies out generations down the road. Ivanka next leader, then trump jr or vice versa, then Jarad and the immigration nightmare creator Stephen...

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

18. I don't see much fear, voter suppression, in Detroit.

The mayor, the city clerk, all Dems. Multiple ballot drop boxes around the city. No big "militia" gatherings. Even the weather has been pretty good.

I don't know why there is only a 50% voting rate, but I don't think it's because of external factors.

Vote.

[LisaL]

7. So their higher and lower turnout is at most a 3 % margin?

And predicted at that.

[yaesu]

9. The fascists decimated the population of Detroit, drove a lot of people out so comparing things to

the past is very skewed.

[not_the_one]

10. I just don't get it...

50% predicted to vote. Yet after the next racist cop episode, you can bet 100% of those who didn't vote are going to complain.

I know about the suppression, the purging of rolls, the intimidation AT the polls. But at some point you have to speak, to be heard. Throwing in the towel is not an option.

The only language that works, at this point, is the language of the vote.

[TexasBushwhacker]

22. Yeah, I thought Texas was bad with 59% n/t

[JudyM]

12. Detroit suppression was at fever pitch in '16. Absurdly mismanaged.

Hopefully there will be a surge this time so it’s not even close.

[Turin_C3PO]

14. I hope they're wrong

and the turnout is higher. Detroit is our key to winning Michigan. However even with 50% turnout, I believe we’ll win comfortably there.

[Boogiemack]

15. I see this as a flag to get people who have not yet voted to get out and vote or turn in their

absentee ballots. It could very well be that many are waiting until Nov. 3 to do either. We do need some voters to get out on Nov 3 to counter the ground swell of expected Trump voters.

Let's not be afraid of the facts but let the facts spur us into necessary actions if only to call relatives in Detroit and surrounding areas to get out there and vote!

[AmericanMan1958]

19. Barack Obama will join forces with Joe Biden in Michigan

They’ll put on two drive-in rallies in the cities of Flint and Detroit in Michigan. Stevie Wonder is expected to be the musical guest of the evening.

We are not done in Michigan...
We are just getting started!!!

[Demsrule86]

20. To put this in perspective. Obama got 51% of Detroit.

[truthisfreedom]

23. There's articles saying the opposite.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/oct/31/detroit-michigan-us-election-voters