Of those 35 failed proposals, 12 were bonding requests, 21 were tied to new or increased money -- including restorations of rolled-back millages -- and just two were for millage renewals.

The only renewals to fail were for Wayland Union School District in Allegan, Kent and Barry counties, and another to fund the Kaliseum in Kalkaska County.

Otherwise, voters said yes to 443 total millage renewals, and of the 417 new money asks on ballots, 384 were approved, or 92%.

Public safety-related proposals like police, fire, EMS and 911 services made up roughly a third of the total.

All 310 results tied to public safety measures passed.

Schools saw the most rejections out of the major types of proposals, with 13 failed votes. Six proposals tied to funding the general operations of a jurisdiction failed, and three library proposals went down.

Three road proposals out of a total of 185 results failed – Hopkins Township in Allegan County, Hamilton Township in Van Buren County and North Plains Township in Ionia County.

Out of the top 10 big-money asks, eight were bonding proposals tied to schools. And all of the top 10 requests passed muster with voters except for Benzie County Central Schools and its $38.6 million request.

The legacy Detroit Public Schools district renewal request on its $65 million millage to continue paying down the old district's debt was approved, as well as the $42.1 million general operations millage for Wayne County.

The rest of the big-money requests passed, including the $200 million borrowing ask from Oakland County's Bloomfield Hills School District, followed by the $150 million request from Waterford School District, as well as South Lyon Community Schools ($98.7 million), Cedar Springs Public Schools ($68 million), Jenison Public Schools ($60.7 million), Pinckney Public Schools ($59 million) and Hartland Consolidated Schools ($45 million).

The more than 2.5 million people who voted Tuesday broke the record from the 2018 August primary, which was 2.2 million, according to figures shared by the Secretary of State (SOS).

And the 1.6 million ballots that arrived via the mail or delivered to drop boxes or clerks this election was more than the 1.3 million absentees that occurred during the 2016 presidential election. There were also 3,641 election day registrations.

But Benson said more than 10,000 ballots received were rejected. The reasons why weren’t immediately clear. But one of the reasons could be a ballot postmarked prior to election day but received after 8 p.m., which Benson is advocating for the Legislature to change.

Benson confirmed that all results statewide had been completed by the end of the day Wednesday, with Wayne County the last to report. Other counties that reported results "well into Wednesday" included Oakland, Ingham and Genesee, Benson said.

Asked why some communities in Wayne County were late to report results, Benson said there were a number of factors and that the SOS would be in talks with local clerks to find out what happened.

But Benson said that the SOS was checking in with those jurisdictions Wednesday and that "by all accounts" it had to do with "the record number of people voting through the mail" and the processing of those ballots.

On a press call with reporters Thursday, the Secretary of State predicted anywhere from 2.4 million to 3 million people could vote by mail this November.

Besides advocating for an early start for processing absentee ballots, Benson said she's requested $15 million in federal assistance via Michigan's congressional delegation to fund more people, machines and education ahead of November.

She also called on the U.S. Postal Service to be fully funded, and she'd like to make it a requirement for clerks to do some follow-up work when a voter signature on a ballot doesn't match the one on file, to give those voters a chance to cure their signature and get their vote counted.

According to the survey of 124 districts, 88% were looking at including some sort of online learning component. And 36% were looking at doing a hybrid approach of in-person learning days and online learning days.

Peter Spadafore, associate executive director for advocacy and communications for MASA, said he wasn't sure if the 58% meant exclusively in-person learning. He said he wasn't surprised at the number of districts considering in-person learning, as he said districts have been looking at what they can do to make it happen.

He did say the data could be outdated at this point, given when the survey was conducted. And it should be noted there were 537 school districts and 297 charter schools in operation during the 2018-2019 year, according to the Michigan Department of Education (MDE).

In another survey conducted by MASA from July 22-28, 33% of districts said they'd be requiring masks for students in grades pre-K through 2, while 48% said they weren't and the rest were unsure.

The survey of 122 districts also found 40% were going to require masks for students in grades 3-5, another 44% said no and the rest were unsure.

When it comes to transportation, 95% of districts were going to require masks there.

Finally, the survey found 56% of schools were allowing extracurricular activities, 13% were not and 30% weren't sure.

Spadafore said he was scheduled to share survey data with a committee meeting this week, but legislative session and committees were cancelled after Sen. Tom Barrett (R-Charlotte) tested positive for COVID-19.

By Aug. 17, the state will have received return-to-learning plans from the constituent members of the state's intermediate school districts and charter school authorizers, MDE spokesperson Martin Ackley said, pursuant to a Gov. Gretchen Whitmer executive order.

As far as what the state's largest districts have planned, Spadafore said the public school districts in Ann Arbor, Lansing and Grand Rapids have all committed to start virtually.

In Detroit, the district announced it would give parents the choice of in-person or online and that the plan is still dependent on federal and state government guidance on reopening schools, according to a report from Local 4 Detroit from last week.

It's been established cases generally went back up starting in July after hitting a low point in June. But since July, the cases have bounced up and down without really moving significantly in either direction.

Looking at the average daily reported cases over the week-long period of Aug. 1 to Friday, the average was 653 cases a day, including Friday's report of 762 new cases and zero new deaths.

The week prior, it was 726 cases a day.

For July 18-24, it was 577 a day on average.

Between July 11 and 17, it was 601 a day on average.

And between July 4 and 10, it was 451 a day on average.

When looking at the total case numbers reported over those seven-day periods, they go as follows:

Aug. 1-7: 4,570

July 25-31: 5,080

July 18-24: 4,039

July 11-17: 4,207

July 4-10: 3,160

Going back to the beginning of July, the daily cases reported never dropped below the 297 reported on July 6, and it never went higher than the 1,041 on July 26, but the state said that day's totals were an outlier due to a software glitch.

The next highest daily case report during this time was the 996 cases on July 29.

However, every region in Michigan has seen an uptick in new cases over the past several weeks, and daily case counts in late July exceeded 50 cases per million statewide, according to Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's office Friday, in announcing the signing of an order continuing the emergency and disaster declarations tied to COVID-19, now set to expire Sept. 4.

The statewide positive test rate has also increased, from 2% in mid-June to 3.5% in late July, according to the Governor's office.

The statewide total for cases as of Friday is now 86,191 and for deaths it's 6,247.

Whitmer Friday also announced the signing of an order prohibiting employers from discharging, disciplining, or retaliating against employees who stay home when they or their close contacts are sick. Under the order, No. 2020-166, employers must treat employees who stay home when they are sick as if he or she were taking medical leave.

The Governor noted she signed this order after the federal government allowed the $600 federal pandemic unemployment assistance for Americans to lapse at the end of July, putting pressure on more people to return to work even if they’re sick, according to Whitmer's office.