Voting in person was important for these residents

While a surge of absentee balloting has driven the election race into uncharted waters, many are still voting in person. It's how they've done it in the past and it's how they'll do it during the pandemic.

Absentee vote counting underway in Detroit's TCF Center

While Detroit's election clerk anticipates turnout in the city around 50%, that number could very well swell higher. Among the votes that could push that forecast up are the hundreds of thousands of absentee votes being counted.