Bill Text: MI SB1139 | 2021-2022 | 101st Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Elections: absent voters; emergency absent voter ballot for an individual detained in a jail, holding cell, holding center, or lockup; authorize. Amends sec. 759b of 1954 PA 116 (MCL 168.759b).
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 9-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-09-07 - Referred To Committee On Elections [SB1139 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2021-SB1139-Introduced.html
SENATE BILL NO. 1139
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 Subject to section 758b, 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 the registered elector becomes physically disabled, was or is detained in a jail, holding cell, holding center, or lockup as those terms are defined in section 62 of the corrections code of 1953, 1953 PA 232, MCL 791.262, or shall be is absent from the city or township because of sickness or death in the family which that has occurred at a time which that has made it impossible to apply for an absent voter ballots ballot by the statutory deadline. The application shall must be called an emergency absent voter ballot application.
(2) Emergency An emergency absent voter applications ballot application may be made by letter or on a form provided by the clerk. The application shall must set forth that the voter elector 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 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 person individual intentionally making a false statement in such an emergency absent voter ballot application is guilty of a felony. Any person individual aiding or abetting any person individual to make a false statement on such 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 ballot to the applicant in person, through a deputy or an election assistant, or he the clerk may deliver them the ballot at his the clerk's office to a person an individual named by the applicant in the emergency absent voter ballot application. The voter elector may return the ballots ballot to the clerk in the sealed envelope provided therefor in any manner he the elector sees fit. To be valid, ballots a ballot must be returned to the clerk in time to be delivered to the polls prior to before 8 p.m. on election day.
