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Michiganders head to the polls

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Voting is underway at polls across the state.

The scene was calm and relatively uncrowded at the University of Michigan’s Sports Coliseum, which is also a polling place in Ann Arbor.

Many of the voters lined up early this morning were U of M undergraduates voting in their first presidential election. All wore masks.

Jake Todd is from Rochester Hills. He was too young to vote in 20-16, but says he would have voted Democratic.

“I was so angry in 2016, missing that deadline by — I mean, November 3rd, I turned 18 the following January. So I missed out big time,” said Todd.

According to the Washtenaw County director of elections, the majority of registered voters in Ann Arbor received absentee ballots for this election.