Bill Text: MI HB4035 | 2017-2018 | 99th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Elections; absent voters; absent voter ballot; issue upon voter's request without requiring justification. Amends sec. 759b of 1954 PA 116 (MCL 168.759b). TIE BAR WITH: HB 4033'17, HB 4034'17
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-01-18 - Bill Electronically Reproduced 01/12/2017 [HB4035 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2017-HB4035-Introduced.html
HOUSE BILL No. 4035
January 12, 2017, Introduced by Reps. Hammoud, Wittenberg, Ellison, Yanez, Moss, Chirkun, Geiss, Hertel, Jones, Cochran, Neeley, Green and Lasinski and referred to the Committee on Elections and Ethics.
A bill to amend 1954 PA 116, entitled
"Michigan election law,"
by amending section 759b (MCL 168.759b).
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
Sec.
759b. (1) Any A registered elector may apply for an
absent
voter ballots ballot at any time prior to before
4 p.m. on
election
day if he shall have become physically disabled or shall
be
absent from the city or township because of sickness or death in
the
family which an event has occurred at a time which has that
made
it impossible to apply for an absent voter ballots ballot by
the statutory deadline. The application shall be called an
emergency absent voter ballot application.
(2) Emergency absent voter ballot applications may be made by
letter or on a form prescribed by the secretary of state and
provided
by the clerk. The application shall must set forth that
the
voter is qualified to vote in the election , stating the
statutory
reason for applying for an emergency absent voter ballot
and
that the reason for applying after the statutory deadline an
event occurred at such a time to make it impossible to file an
application
for an absent voter ballots ballot
by the statutory
deadline.
(3) Any
A person intentionally making a false statement in
such
an emergency absent voter
ballot application is guilty of a
felony.
Any A person aiding or abetting any another
person to make
a
false statement on such in
an emergency absent voter ballot
application is guilty of a felony.
(4) Upon receipt by the clerk of a valid application for an
emergency
absent voter ballot, the clerk may deliver the ballots
absent voter ballot to the applicant in person, through a deputy or
an
election assistant, or he may deliver them at his or her
office
to a person named by the applicant in the emergency absent voter
ballot application. The absent voter may return the
ballots absent
voter
ballot to the clerk in the sealed
envelope provided therefor
in
any manner. he sees fit. To However, to be valid, ballots must
be
returned the absent voter shall
return the absent voter ballot
to the clerk in the sealed envelope provided for that reason and in
time
to be delivered to the polls prior to before 8 p.m. on
election day.
Enacting section 1. This amendatory act takes effect 90 days
after the date it is enacted into law.
Enacting section 2. This amendatory act does not take effect
unless all of the following bills of the 99th Legislature are
enacted into law:
(a) Senate Bill No.____ or House Bill No. 4033 (request no.
00441'17).
(b) Senate Bill No.____ or House Bill No. 4034 (request no.
01050'17).
