We’ve got to vote him out,” Mr. Lewis said, referring to Mr. Trump. “It’s that simple.”The coronavirus pandemic may be upending voting this year, and some voters have said they are wary of standing in long lines on Election Day, but that hasn’t stopped a surge of early voting and requests for absentee ballots in Michigan. Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, a Democrat, has said the total number of votes cast could exceed five million and set a record. In many of Detroit’s suburbs on Thursday, the lines were not as long, but the clerks were working just as hard to prepare and mail out some of the 2.4 million absentee ballots that have already been requested statewide. “We knew coming into 2020 it was going to be busy because it’s a presidential election year.

Source: New York Times September 26, 2020 15:00 UTC