WARREN, Mich. (FOX 2) – A feud is brewing between the county clerk of Macomb and the city clerk of Warren over a decision to wait on readying absentee ballots to be counted until election day, despite a new state law allowing eight days of pre-processing the votes that are mailed in.
Warren City Clerk Sonja Buffa has served in the position overseeing elections in Michigan’s third-largest city for years.
She was around when the state expanded absentee ballot eligibility, so any resident could take advantage of the process in 2018, as well as when the state expanded voting again to include early voting in 2022.…