ADRIAN, Mich. — Early voters in Michigan are getting ready to head to the polls this weekend, and one Adrian resident is anticipating a historic election.
"I think both parties have a challenge right now,” said Robert Gluckstad. "It's exciting. There's a lot more going on this year than ever. I think this is going to go down in history of who's going to be the president, who's not going to be the president."
Early voting is relatively new in Lenawee County.
Michelle Bates, an election coordinator for the county, says voters have a lot of options for how to cast ballots, including voting absentee or heading to a polling location on Election Day and casting a ballot in person.
The effort to establish early voting in Lenawee County began in 2023 after a proposal to enact it was passed, Bates added.
Each polling location has to have a minimum of three election inspectors — at least one Republican and one Democrat for checks and balances.
"We are in the window that they have to register in person if they're not registered," Bates said. "The place to do that would be with their local township or city clerk, and they can register even on Election Day."
Bates says she expects the voter turnout to be much larger than the presidential primary in February, which only brought out about 400 voters.
"Based on the phone calls our office has been receiving and the folks that have stopped in today to see what it's all about, I think that we'll have a good turnout,” she said.
Early voting in Michigan begins on Saturday and runs until Nov. 3.