MERIDIAN TOWNSHIP - The Michigan Presidential Primary Election is today Tuesday, March 8th and the polls will be open from 7 a.m. until 8 p.m.

Voters must select either the Republican political party ballot or Democratic political party ballot in this election.

“Only in the presidential primary do you have to select which party's ballot you'd like to receive, Democratic party or Republican party. A lot of the applications that have come back have not indicated which political party ballot they'd like to receive so we can't sent them either one,” Meridian Township Clerk Brett Dreyfus stated.

On election day, voters must go to the polling location listed on their registered voting card and bring photo identification.

However, if you do not have a photo I.D. with you, you are still able to vote.

“Now if you don't have one with you, you can sign an affidavit on the back of the application, that little sheet that you fill out when you first walk in…and it just says I'm not in possession of my photo I.D. but I do have one,” Dreyfus said.

Dreyfus also wanted voters to know that campaign literature/notes are allowed inside the voting booths and if a mistake is made on a ballot, a new one can be issued.

He also mentioned…

“You can have conversations in the polling locations...it can't be about anything related to what’s on the ballot so you can't talk about anything related to the presidential election.”

All absentee ballots must be returned to the Clerk's Office by 8 p.m. on election day. So far 3,500 absentee ballots have been turned into the Meridian Township Clerk's Office. That number is higher than the last Presidential Primary Election in 2012.