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Trump and Harris campaign in the West
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Detroit City Clerk Janice Winfrey expects 290,000 Detroiters to vote in the 2024 election — an expected turnout of 53% that would surpass the citywide turnout of 51% of 2020.

The 2024 general election is the first in which Michigan voters can vote early in person, with 22,000 ballots cast so far and 81,000 absentee ballots cast.

In addition to higher turnout, the city has beefed up its security, with 10 officers strategically located inside the absentee tabulation center. where chaotic protests broke out in 2020 “in the event we have any disruptions or if anyone violates or deviates from Michigan election law.”

Additional security measures, such as installing bulletproof glass at the city’s elections department, are necessary because of the 2020 unrest, said elections director Daniel Baxter.

“The world was upside down. We had a turbulent America at the time, but we didn’t anticipate the type of shenanigans that were happening at that time,” he told reporters. “We wait and hope for the best, and we have planned for the worst.”

Winfrey, the city clerk, said she once thought her personal police escort was “over the top.”

“But when they came to my house, they came to my house in 2020 and threatened my life because they thought I had something to do with Trump’s defeat, and then it became different for me,” she declared.

Asked at a news conference about the focus on voter fraud in Democratic cities like Detroit, Baxter said race was a factor.

“It’s because we’re a black city,” Baxter said. “I think when you look at some of the attacks that have been made on communities like Philadelphia, Detroit, Atlanta, those type of communities, that’s where black people live, that’s where black people are the administrators of the process , and this is why we are attacked so often.

Thanks to a measure passed in the 2022 midterms, local clerks in Michigan can choose to pre-process mail-in ballots before Election Day, which officials hope will lead to faster results and fewer conspiracy theories on election night.