Bill Text: MI SB0295 | 2021-2022 | 101st Legislature | Introduced


Bill Title: Elections: election officials; election inspectors to conduct regular balancing checks on precinct tabulators during election day; require. Amends sec. 33 of 1954 PA 116 (MCL 168.33).

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 8-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-03-24 - Referred To Committee On Elections [SB0295 Detail]

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SENATE BILL NO. 295

March 24, 2021, Introduced by Senators VICTORY, LASATA, HORN, THEIS, STAMAS, ZORN, BARRETT and OUTMAN and referred to the Committee on Elections.

A bill to amend 1954 PA 116, entitled

"Michigan election law,"

by amending section 33 (MCL 168.33), as amended by 2012 PA 271.

the people of the state of michigan enact:

Sec. 33. (1) The director of elections shall conduct training schools throughout this state before the general November election, and before other elections as the director considers advisable, for county clerks and their representatives with respect to the conducting of elections in accordance with the election laws. Included in this training shall must be instruction on the uniform voting system. If a county clerk fails to conduct in his or her county a training school for election boards within the county, the director of elections shall must conduct the training school, the cost of the training school to be charged as an obligation of the county.

(2) The director of elections shall train all county, city, and township clerks who are involved in the training of precinct inspectors. The training shall must include team training and monitoring of their performance as trainers.

(3) The director of elections shall conduct all precinct inspector training in counties where the clerk has not been accredited to conduct the training schools.

(4) The training of precinct inspectors by either the director of elections or a county, city, or township clerk must include training on precinct inspectors conducting regular balancing checks at least once every hour in each precinct on election day to confirm that the total number of ballots issued at a precinct matches the total number of ballots tabulated by the precinct tabulator at that precinct.

(5) (4) The director of elections shall conduct continuing election education training courses for county, city, township, and village clerks to attend. Each county, city, township, and village clerk is required to attend and complete continuing election education training at least once every 2 years to maintain accreditation as a clerk. The department of state is responsible for providing continuing election education training to the clerks at no charge to the clerks, counties, cities, townships, or villages.

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