Bill Text: MI HB4035 | 2017-2018 | 99th Legislature | Introduced

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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

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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).