Detroit opens 21 new satellite sites for voters to pick up and drop off absentee ballots.

Election officials opened 21 satellite voting sites on Monday in Detroit, where election headquarters and city hall have been open for absentee voting for the past 10 days. The new sites, set up across the city, allow voters to pick up or drop off absentee ballots.

A handful of communities around the state have opened additional satellite offices for absentee voting, but Detroit’s effort, which also includes 30 ballot drop boxes around the city, is the largest effort in Michigan.

The number of people who have requested absentee ballots — more than 2.7 million, according to Michigan’s secretary of state, Jocelyn Benson — has far exceeded the 1.1 million people who voted absentee in 2016. More than 380,000 people have already returned their absentee ballots.

On Monday, Michelle and Robert Horton arrived and said it was their first time voting absentee.

“We don’t like the way things have been going and we think that somebody new on the ballot can bring peace,” Ms. Horton, 56, said outside the Northwest Activities Center in Detroit, where more than 100 people used the drop box outside the center to turn in their ballots that morning.