HB 6199 Summary

• Requires each city, village, or township clerk to provide at least one secure drop box in an accessible outdoor location for voters to return absent voter ballots.

• Only the clerk or authorized clerk assistants may access the drop boxes, which must be checked and emptied daily.

• Adds drop box delivery as an option in the absent voter ballot return instructions (Step 5(b)), alongside existing methods of mail, personal delivery to clerk, or family member delivery.

• Updates ballot instruction language by replacing "shall" with "must" and "person/people" with "individual/individuals" throughout the statutory text.

• Maintains existing deadlines requiring ballots to reach the clerk before poll closing on election day to be counted.