elections
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
November 13, 2023
Campus briefs
Short news items from around the University of Michigan.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.