FIRST PLACE: Salwan Georges, Detroit Free Press: Amina Ahmad, 62, and her husband Nizam Ahmad, 65, fill their ballot for the 2016 United States presidential election at J H Siersma Elementary School on Tuesday November 8, 2016, in Warren, MI. Ahmad's, who are immigrants from Bangladesh, have been voting in U.S. elections since 1972.

SECOND PLACE: Rachel Woolf, The Flint Journal: Burke Cueny, of Rochester, watches as volunteers and city officials participate in a recount after a federal judge ordered the statewide recount at the Oakland Schools Conference Center on December 5, 2016 in Waterford Township, Michigan. The recount is a request from Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein, after the close margin of Michigan's election results.

THIRD PLACE: Jake May, The Flint Journal: Flint resident Sue Hart, 56, flips up both her middle fingers toward toward a passing truck in disdain of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump as more than 100 protestors and supporters gather along Dort Highway to catch a glimpse of Trump on Wednesday, Sept. 14, 2016 as he takes a tour of the Flint Water Plant in Flint. "He's a racist. He shouldn't even be here," Hart said. "Trump and the Republicans helped destroy this city. Flint is our city, and they ruined it with their BS. (If he was president) My God. Could you even imagine? … He's not here for the water crisis or the people. This is just smoke and mirrors. Trump doesn't care about anyone, especially the people of Flint. He's just using us."

HONORABLE MENTION: Salwan Georges, Detroit Free Press: Republican presidential candidates Donald Trump defends the size of his hands during the Fox News GOP debate on Thursday, March 3, 2016, at the Fox Theater in Detroit, MI. “Look at those hands, are they small hands?” said Trump. “And he referred to my hands…if they’re small, something else must be small. I guarantee you there’s no problem,” he added.