(WWJ) Undercover police officers were on patrol at polling stations in Warren on Tuesday --- although they didn't see much action.
Warren Mayor Jim Fouts said he called in the cops after tensions rose between people waiting in line during early voting over the weekend.
But before the polls closed at 8 p.m. on Election Day, Warren Police Commissioner told WWJ Newsradio 950 that residents were calmly casting ballots and all was well.
There was one disturbance at the Butcher Educational Center in Warren, but it had a happy ending.
Secretary of State Spokesperson Jake Rollow said Biden and Trumps supporters with bullhorns started shouting at each in an attempt at intimidation.
"However, as time went by it seems that they decided to meet in the middle," Rollow told WWJ's Sandra McNeill. "So they since have decided to stand together in the middle and have been taking pictures together and have actually sang God Bless America as a group. I am not making this up."
City Clerk Sonya Buffa said things were pretty slow overall most of the day, with waits averaging around 15 minutes, after lines were on the longer side early on.
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"As I anticipated this morning there was a big rush," she said. "And usually there is a rush in the morning when people go before work."
Nearly 41,000 Warren voters requested ballots to vote absentee, Buffa said, and almost 38,000 pf those ballots were returned on time.
That's about three times of the number of people who voted absentee in Warren 2016, she said.
Over 200 people have popped into the Warren clerk's office to register to vote on Tuesday, Buffa said, and in-person voters overall were "pretty nice and pretty patient."
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Looking at some statewide stats, the Secretary of State's Office said more than 24,000 people registered to vote in Michigan on Election Day. The highest numbers were in Detroit and Ann Arbor, followed by Grand Rapids. By 7 p.m., over 3.2 million absentee ballots had been returned in Michigan.