elections

  1. March 20, 2024

    Germ aversion affected 2020 election voting behavior

    Voters opted to pick candidates in 2020 by mail-in ballots, avoiding poll sites due to COVID-19 concerns rather than because of political party efforts to promote specific voting methods.

  2. February 10, 2024

    UM-Dearborn professor prepares for busy deepfake year

    With election season gearing up, Hafiz Malik has become a go-to resource for journalists looking into potential fake audio and video.

  3. January 26, 2024

    Michigan Minds: Presidential election season won’t be normal

    In a new Michigan Minds podcast, U-M political scientist Vincent Hutchings describes how the 2024 presidential election season will be unlike those in previous years.

  4. November 30, 2023

    Central Student Government resolutions and voting process

    The university has canceled the portion of a student election that included two resolutions regarding U-M’s position on violence in Israel and the Gaza Strip, following concerns about the integrity of the voting process.

  5. November 13, 2023

    Campus briefs

    Short news items from around the University of Michigan.

  6. October 30, 2023

    It Happened at Michigan — Breaking barriers and making gay rights history

    U-M student Kathy Kozachenko, who campaigned in residence halls and student neighborhoods, made history in 1974 by becoming the country’s first openly gay elected official.

  7. November 9, 2022

    White, Behm re-elected to seats on Board of Regents

    Incumbent Democrats Katherine E. White and Michael J. Behm have been re-elected to eight-year terms on the Board of Regents, drawing 25.16% and 24.56% of the statewide vote, respectively.

  8. November 9, 2022

    U-M president, Michigan Medicine CEO react to Proposal 3 passing

    President Santa J. Ono and Michigan Medicine CEO Marschall S. Runge expressed their support for access to comprehensive reproductive health care following the success of a statewide reproductive-rights ballot initiative.

  9. November 8, 2022

    Election Day 2022

    Voters took to the polls at various locations across the Ann Arbor campus on Nov. 8 to cast their ballots in the 2022 midterm election.

  10. November 2, 2022

    Former legislators broadly favor reforming or ending term limits

    As voters in Michigan consider a ballot measure to change the state’s legislative term limits, a survey of former legislators shows overwhelming support for reforming or abolishing the limits.