To vote prior to an election:
The City of DeWitt has entered into a countywide agreement in which Clinton County will offer nine days of early voting prior to the election, beginning the second Saturday before an election and ending the Sunday before the election. There will be two early voting sites that you may vote at: DeWitt Township Hall and Bingham Township Hall. If you do not wish to vote early at one of the sites, you may still vote in person at City Hall on Election Day or by absentee ballot. Below is the Early Voting Location information:
State Law requires the Clerk’s Office to be open for eight hours on the Saturday before the election. Please contact the Clerks Office for hours of availability.
To vote on election day:
Appear at your polling place on Election Day. The polls are open from 7:00 a.m. until 8:00 p.m.
Polling Location:
Starting in 2024 the City of DeWitt consolidated from two precincts to one. All residents will vote in the Community Room at City Hall, 414 E. Main Street
The State of Michigan Voter Information Center online services. Services include:
For any of these services please visit: www.Michigan.gov/vote.
Under the requirements of the Help America Vote Act (HAVA), each polling location must have at least one voting unit designed to accommodate the needs of disabled voters. Clinton County has selected the Hart Intercivic Verity Touch Writer as its county-wide system. It is a voting device that allows voters with a variety of disabilities to vote using the same Varity Scan as other voters in the same precinct. These new voting machines will be available for use beginning with the August 2018 Primary election.
Beginning with the 2018 election cycle, a county-wide optical scan voting system was implemented. After considering the various optical scan systems, Clinton County polling places will be using the Hart Intercivic Verity Scan.
Notice: The Absentee Voter Counting Board will be meeting on Monday, November 4th, 2024 from 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. to preprocess absentee ballots. There will be four election inspectors tabulating ballots.
Starting in 2024 the City of DeWitt consolidated from two precincts to one. All residents will vote in the Community Room at City Hall, 414 E. Main Street
Public Act # 298 of 2003 (the Election Consolidation Law) provides for the consolidation of local elections and mandates that cities and townships shall conduct all school and community college elections. All City residents will vote at the above precinct location for school elections. (Effective January 1, 2005)
No Reason Voting! With the passing of Proposal 3 in 2018, the State of Michigan has adopted “no reason” absentee voting. This means that there are no more qualifying reasons for absentee voting. Anyone can vote by absentee ballot. If you would like to vote by absentee ballot, you may submit an absentee ballot application online by clicking here.
Absent voter ballots are opened on Election Day by election inspectors and tabulated by the absentee voter counting board. All absent voter ballots must be received by 8:00 pm on Election Day.
According to the City Charter, “Elective officials shall be registered electors of the City, who shall have resided within the City for six months or more, and shall be at least 21 years of age on the date the office is to be filled.” It also states, “The election of all City officials as provided in this charter shall be non-partisan (City Charter, Section 6.4).
