Hayley Harding

Hayley Harding

Reporter, Votebeat

Hayley Harding is a Detroit-based reporter who has covered government and the people who run it at all levels. She covers voting and election administration in Michigan. Before that, she was a data journalist on The Detroit News’ investigations team, where she covered population trends, social problems, and more. She has worked for the Idaho Statesman in Boise and for the Salisbury Daily Times in Salisbury, Maryland. A Michigander by birth, Hayley graduated from Ohio University.

The state’s Qualified Voter File slowed to a crawl during the August primary, making it difficult to register new voters or process absentee ballots.

The mayor of Hamtramck, Michigan, will apparently have to leave office after revised election results gave his opponent a 12-vote lead.

Tuscarora Township allegedly waited almost a week after receiving its ballots to put them in the mail.

Either Anthony Forlini or Garlin Gilchrist will oversee the 2028 presidential election in Michigan.

At least 8,500 voters across three suburban Detroit communities got ballots that listed a local library board candidate in the wrong section.

Clerks blamed the short gap between primary and general election and delays at the printer.

Ballots are already in voters’ hands.

Antrim County Clerk Victoria Bishop allegedly canceled and changed registrations for a number of voters, despite that being a job only for township and city clerks.

Those charged include voters in swing states such as Michigan, Wisconsin, and Texas.