Bill Text: MI HB4395 | 2017-2018 | 99th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Elections; voting procedures; early voting; provide for. Amends secs. 720 & 735 of 1954 PA 116 (MCL 168.720 & 168.735) & adds sec. 720a.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-03-22 - Bill Electronically Reproduced 03/21/2017 [HB4395 Detail]

Download: Michigan-2017-HB4395-Introduced.html

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HOUSE BILL No. 4395

 

 

March 21, 2017, Introduced by Reps. Gay-Dagnogo, Moss, Clemente, LaGrand, Ellison, Sneller, Neeley, Schor, Lasinski, Byrd, Scott, Hammoud, Sabo, Green, Elder, Hertel, Durhal, Zemke, Pagan, Yanez, Wittenberg, Howrylak, Chang, Brinks, Hoadley, Cochran, Robinson, Liberati and Kivela and referred to the Committee on Elections and Ethics.

 

     A bill to amend 1954 PA 116, entitled

 

"Michigan election law,"

 

by amending sections 720 and 735 (MCL 168.720 and 168.735), section

 

735 as amended by 2004 PA 92, and by adding section 720a.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 720. (1) On the day of any an election, the polls shall

 

be opened must open at 7 o'clock in the forenoon, a.m. and shall

 

must be continuously open until 8 o'clock in the afternoon and no

 

longer. Every p.m. Each qualified elector present and in line at

 

the polls at the hour prescribed for the closing thereof time shall

 

be allowed to vote.

 

     (2) If a city, township, or village provides for early voting

 

under section 720a, the clerk of the city, township, or village

 

shall post the hours that the polls will be open at the clerk's

 

office. The clerk shall provide notice to the electors that

 

substantially complies with the form in section 653a of the dates

 

and hours the early voting polling places will be open.

 

     Sec. 720a. (1) Each city, township, or village may provide

 

early voting at 1 or more polling places designated by the city,

 

township, or village clerk during the period of time set forth in

 

this section before an election.

 

     (2) Early voting may begin on or after the forty-fifth day

 

before an election and ends on the day before the election.

 

     (3) The secretary of state shall cooperate with each

 

municipality conducting early voting and provide technical

 

assistance to each municipality that requests technical assistance.

 

     (4) Except as otherwise provided, all of the following

 

provisions of this act apply to early voting:

 

     (a) Election inspectors.

 

     (b) Challenges to voters.

 

     (c) Poll book and poll list.

 

     (d) Notices, instructions, and placards.

 

     (e) Security of a voting machine or other voting system.

 

     (f) Ballot security, ballot containers, ballot counting, and

 

ballot preservation.

 

     (g) Spoiled ballots.

 

     (5) The poll book and poll list for each precinct must be

 

maintained in accordance with section 735.

 

     (6) Early voting ballots must be processed in the same manner

 

as ballots cast on election day.

     (7) As used in this section, "municipality" means a city,

 

township, or village.

 

     Sec. 735. (1) At each primary and election, election

 

inspectors shall keep 1 poll book and 1 poll list. An election

 

inspector shall enter in the poll book, in the order in which

 

electors are given ballots, the name of each elector who is given a

 

ballot and immediately after the name, on the same line, shall

 

enter the number of the ballot given to the elector. For an absent

 

voter ballot, when an election inspector removes the ballot from

 

the sealed absent voter envelope, the election inspector shall

 

enter in the poll book the name of the absent voter and the number

 

of the ballot.

 

     (2) If a city, township, or village provides for early voting

 

under section 720a, the poll book must be divided by date and

 

separate records must be maintained for each day of early voting.

 

     (3) (2) If an elector is issued a provisional ballot, an

 

election inspector shall enter a proper designation in the poll

 

book, including whether the provisional ballot was tabulated in the

 

precinct or was secured for verification after the election.

 

     (4) (3) At the completion of the precinct canvass, an election

 

inspector shall record on the certificate provided in the poll book

 

the number of each metal seal used to seal voting equipment and

 

ballot containers. Each member of the board of election inspectors

 

shall sign the certificate.

 

     Enacting section 1. This amendatory act takes effect 90 days

 

after the date it is enacted into law.