With one day to go before the Nov. 6 election, almost a million Michigan voters -- 13 percent of registered voters -- have handed in absentee ballots so far, according to numbers released today by the Michigan Secretary of State's office.

That's up 43 percent from the day before 2014 election, the last time the state voted for governor.

Absentee ballots are available until 4 p.m. today, Nov. 5, at city and township clerk offices. At this point, the ballots must be filled out and returned on the spot.

Voters who already obtained an absentee ballot have until 8 p.m. Tuesday to return it to their city or township clerk's office.

In Michigan, absentee ballot is generally limited to voters who are age 60 and older, disabled or out of town on Election Day.

Michigan's local election clerks have sent out 1,211,610 million absentee ballots and have received back 993,541 completed ballots as of Monday morning, the state numbers show.

That compares to 783,311 sent out and 692,885 returned by the day before the 2014 November election.

However, the 2018 numbers are still below the 2016 presidential election, when 1,284,262 ballots were sent out by this points and 1,162,255 returned.

This most recent data seems to confirm Michigan will experience a record turnout this year for a gubernatorial election, but it will still be below the voter turnout in a presidential year.

About 3.2 million voted in 2014. The turnout record for an gubernatorial election was set in 2006, when 3.85 million Michigan voters went to the polls.

Almost 5 million voted in 2016.

Below is an online database that allows you to look up the county-level data released today by the Secretary of State office. It shows the numbers of absentee ballots returned the day before the election in 2014, 2016 and 2018.

Absentee ballots returned day before election