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The League of Women Voters of Michigan has released the Nonpartisan Michigan Voter Guide 2006 for the November 7th general election. The guide covers all state-level candidates and ballot proposals. In-depth analysis of ballot proposals are available from the Citizens Research Council of Michigan. To find out where you vote in Michigan and what type of voting equipment you’ll use, visit Publius or Michigan Votes.
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I've collected a few more sources for Michigan sample ballots on my web site, including one sponsored by the Gannett newspaper chain that has a bunch of candidate questions and answers.
Washtenaw County has a Washtenaw Votes site up with links to ballots precinct by precinct keyed off your address. Larry Kestenbaum, the county clerk, was telling me about that today.
Publius is my favorite of all of these because it really has interactive sample ballots - the names of candidates are linked through to the candidate web sites, so you can see what people are saying about themselves.
Edward Vielmetti
The library gathers together useful websites about elections in the Elections section of the AADL Select Sites.
A list of all of the polling places in the county (again via the Washtenaw Votes site) has an address of everywhere you might go to vote by city or township and precinct and ward. Go to Washtenaw Votes or Publius to look up where you should go to, if you don't know already.
Edward Vielmetti