I think this is a 3% difference downwards from 2020 election which was at the height of the early Covid pandemic.  So, I'm not worried.  I know someone who mailed theirs back on Tuesday.  We also have early voting which starts in the city of Detroit on Saturday.  A few other places start earlier than the statewide start of, I believe, Oct. 26th.

And personal rant, the article makes it sound like the pandemic is over and it is not.  Please get your updated vaccine this fall if you haven't yet.  If the mRNA vaccines bothered you before, Novavax is more like a "traditional" vaccine and the manufacturers reported fewer side effects in their application to the FDA.  End rant.