OLIVE TOWNSHIP, Mich. (WOOD) — Ottawa County is seeing record early in-person voting turnout and high absentee ballot return rates ahead of the Nov. 5 election, according to numbers shared by the county clerk.

As of Monday, 51,675 of the 74,248 ballots that were issued have been returned, according to a social media post from Ottawa County Clerk Justin Roebuck. That’s just under 70%.

Meanwhile, more than 9,000 Ottawa County residents cast their votes across the first three days of early in-person voting, according to the county clerk’s office: 2,761 on Saturday, 3,188 on Sunday and 3,075 on Monday. The early voting period continues until Sunday, Nov. 3.

It’s a big jump for Ottawa County, which — like other counties — has seen low early in-person voting turnout for the past two elections. Roebuck previously told News 8 that Ottawa County saw about 2,800 early in-person voters ahead of the Aug. 6 primary and even fewer — about 1,500 — ahead of the Feb. 27 presidential primary, which was the first election with statewide early in-person voting.

Altogether, this means more than 25% of Ottawa County voters have participated in the general election as of Monday, Roebuck said.

Election officials have been seeing similar trends across the state.

“More than a quarter of Michigan’s active registered voters, 25%, have already cast their ballot in this November election,” Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson said Monday.

According to the state’s election dashboard, as of Tuesday morning, more than 1.9 million people — over 27% of Michigan’s active registered voters — have already voted in the general election, with about 1.6 million absentee ballots returned and about 390,000 ballots cast during early in-person voting.

To find your polling place, you can visit michigan.gov/vote.