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"Marquette city clerk, Kyle Whitney, says about 40 percent of the city has already turned in absentee ballots.
The counting will begin Tuesday at 7 a.m. Whitney says there will be 12 volunteers running ballots between four different tabulators.
No one will be allowed to leave the counting room once counting begins."
and the good news:
"Whitney said there will be no election week in Marquette and ballots should all be counted by the end of election night."
https://www.uppermichiganssource.com/2020/10/31/city-clerk-offices-gear-up-for-absentee-ballot-counting/
Marquette is the largest city in Marquette county which is the largest county in Upper Michigan. Obama won the county in 2008 and 2012 and Hillary won it in 2016.
Thekaspervote
(32,606 posts)soothsayer
(38,601 posts)Kaleva
(36,146 posts)I'd give new meaning to the term "spoiled ballots".
Ha
GusBob
(7,286 posts)But the rest of the UP with the exception of the Indian Reservations is hard core Trump if I recall correctly
Fortunately it is sparsely populated
Rice4VP
(1,235 posts)556,000+ ballots were requested there.
Marquette only had 21,000 requests